Re: Ascii for Stop-a ?

hal_at_nospam.com
Date: 03/31/05 

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:35:34 -0700

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:32:15 -0600, Matthew Weigel
<nospamUSENETnospam@idempot.net> wrote:

>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.
>
>It's the ~# escape on tip(1).

Hi Matt.

>
>But... if it can't boot from disk, why ins't it timing out into OpenBoot?

It thought it had a boot image but apparently it was corrupted and
hung there.

>
>> Procomm does key mapping but can't find the stop-a code. Anyone have
>> a reference?
>
>Even Google doesn't know; why not use a different terminal program? If
>one of your other Solaris hosts has a spare serial port, it's pretty
>easy. Heck, even Hyperterminal should work, Ctrl-Break ("Pause/Break")
>should do it.

Ended up borrowing a Sun kb from another server. Thought a key
mapping in Procomm might have been a quick and dirty workaround.
Turned out 2.6 wasn't compatible with >400Mhz machines and required a
patched installer. Gotta love it. Now if only I could find my CD
with DiskSuite.

Hal

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