Re: Ascii for Stop-a ?

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 03/29/05


Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:17:50 GMT

In comp.unix.solaris hal@nospam.com wrote:
> I am having problems with a 2.6 install on a 420R that failed and now
> can't boot from disk. I am using Procomm for my terminal and of
> course don't have a stop-a to break boot and tell it to go back to CD.
> Procomm does key mapping but can't find the stop-a code. Anyone have
> a reference?

Most terminal emulators have a key sequence to send an RS-232 BREAK.
That's the halt signal when using the serial port (unless it's been
changed by the running OS... unlikely when you're doing a CDrom boot).

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