Re: Installing Debian on Ultrasparc III machines
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 08:02:01AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:33:42PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > In any case, I let it run some more, and then when it went more or less
> > dead, I tried to press the said key combination on the keyboard - to no
> > avail. Break+p would be Ctrl+Pause+p? Didn't work, and Alt+Pause+p also
> > didn't work. What was even more annoying was the fact that Stop+a got me
> > the PROM shell, but I wasn't able to type anything in it (including 'go'),
> > so that effectively freezes the machine.
> >
> > Please tell me if I did something stunningly stupid...
>
> BREAK is an RS-232 signal that you'd send over the serial console. (I am
> assuming here that you've been instructed to use SysRq functionality
> after a crash). To do it at the keyboard, try Alt+Stop+p. If you have
> magic sysrq enabled and that doesn't work, file a bug on the Linux kernel
> documentation.
Oh, it's Alt+Stop. Well, I never would have guessed that, esp. given that
the Sun keyboard that came with this machine has Break written under the
Pause key :) I'll try that, thanks. Unsurprisingly, lebrun died a while ago
again, so it's now once again in that state where it needs help.
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