RE: Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

["Steve" <steve@lewis.it>]

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Hi Frederic,

 

That is the "stop" key (left hand side of the keyboard on the 5c) and the "a" key.

 

If you do this when the box is initialising you will get the PROM prompt "ok" and if you do it when you see SILO, you will be at the "boot" prompt.

 

The "ok" prompt allows you to do some system checking and change your boot options, floppy, cd, net etc and the "boot" prompt allows you to specify which specific kernel you want to boot from.  I am sure there are other more experienced members on the list who can you better details of what you can/can't do from these prompts.

 

Are you getting this on a kernel upgrade?  If so, you may have to change your symlinks to read full paths /boot/vmlinuz-whatever rather than just boot/vmlinuz-whatever.

 

Cheers,

 

Steve

 

-----Original Message-----
From: frederic.jaimes@ratp.fr [mailto:frederic.jaimes@ratp.fr]
Sent: 20 July 2005 12:05
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

"Press L1-A to return to the boot prom"
> > What key sequence is this? I have a Type 5 keyboard.

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