Don't want to interrupt the little flame-fest here about how exactly to break
the sync account and get a uid=1 shell, but I deleted the sync account from the
Suns here a few years back when I learned how to force a sync from the PROM
monitor:
For old style PROMS (non-Forth):
L1-A (key chord to get attention of PROM monitor)
> g 0 (PROM command to jump to location zero)
panic: zero
syncing disks... 13 11 [6] 5 4 3 2 1
[etc. lots of crash messages]
For new style PROMS (SPARCstations, SPARCserver MPs)
L1-A (key chord to get attention of PROM monitor)
(type b to boot, c to continue, n for new mode)
> n
ok sync (if setenv sunmon-compat? false, just do this)
@alex
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