Re: Solarus 8/9 Sparc Questions

On 3 Mar 2003, cfowler wrote:

> Hoe would one get into the boot monitor from a tty-rsc console.  This is
> a console over ethernet.  Sending a break via conserver would be of no
> use.

one of the commands from the rsc> prompt is 'break'.
(but you can still use serial A to send break in the normal matter too).
If you want to use RSC as the machine console, you have to set the
eeprom to tell it to use RSC as the system console. We just use
regular console as console and RSC for emergency supplement so
I don't remember the exact syntax, but a google search should turn
it up.

>
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:38, Sigurd Mytting wrote:
> > [Kjell Andresen]
> >
> > |  On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, cfowler wrote:
> > ||  Can someone tell me if Solaris 8 and 9 still goes into the boot monitor
> > ||  when a break is sent across the serial line?
> >
> > |  I guess so, but you may change the break sequence on your Solaris
> > |  host(s).
> >
> > It does.  You can change the break-sequence by altering KEYBOARD_ABORT
> > in /etc/default/kbd; by setting it to 'alternate' the break-sequence
> > is set to '<RETURN><TIDLE><CONTROL B>'.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Sigurd
> > --
> > Sigurd Mytting,   <URL:http://www.usit.uio.no/> Section for Operations
> > Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo, Norway
> --
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> fix problems that leak through the abstraction.
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