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Re: Does STOP+A really work on the Sunblade 100?



> I would like to the escape to the boot prompt using the STOP+A key
> combination on my Sunblade 100 with its USB keyboard.  Unfortunately,
> all I manage to do is freeze the machine so badly that it needs to be
> power-cycled.  I have looked in the debian-sparc archives and on Google
> for references to this key combination, and all I get are messages about
> how to break out of the Sun boot sequence.

Its a usb interface thing. I've asked David Miller about that at the
vger lkml, and he said that he didn't know if he will ever fix it.

> Does STOP+A really work for sparc64 2.4.17 kernels?

Yeap. I've done it with ultra5s, and an ultra1.

> And if so, does typing "go" get you back to Linux without a problem?

Noup.

-- 
Alvaro Figueroa



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