The reason to change the break sequence, as opposed to the boot sequence,
is that when the 2511 reboots, it sends a break to the serial port (in
this case the sun console), which causes Solaris/SunOS to stop executing
and drop into the prom monitor. I seem to recall there used to be a
serial adapter to fix that...
--Dean
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Debra Douglass wrote:
> On 9/27/2002, on [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Goodwin
>wrote:
> >>You can change the break sequence (or disable it) on Solaris such that this
> >>would no longer present a problem ...
> >>It's been a while since I've touched the config for that, but I believe it's
> >>something in /etc/default ... perhaps keyboard or something.. you could grep
> >>files in there or a google search should hook you up with the syntax...
>
> Actually for a Sun workstation or server of most types it's in the
> OpenBoot PROM. Shutdown the system and at the OK prompt type
>
> setenv auto-boot? true
>
> This will set it so that whenever your system goes down for any
> reason, except an explicit shutdown, it will try to reboot.
>
> Typing 'printenv' at the OK prompt will show you all of the parameters
> that are set in the NVRAM.
>
> -Debra
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