On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 04:32:53PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> I have a pre-loved sun sparc classic where the hard disk hasn't been
> purged properly, so it keeps looking for the other parts (/usr, etc)
> that it want to nfs mount.
>
> I want to interrupt the boot up to install a new system "boot cdrom".
> Can someone tell me how to interrupt the boot up sequence so I can issue
> that command.
If you've got a keyboard/monitor plugged in, either :
1) Stop-A (hold down stop, press A)
2) Pull out the keyboard and plug it back in
If you've got a serial console connected to port A :
1) Send it a break signal (ctrl-] in telnet, the "send break")
As it's a classic this will probably get you to a prompt which has ">"
>From here you can either press "n" to get to the more standard "ok"
prompt where you can use "boot cdrom", or probably use something like
"b sd(0,6,0)" to boot directly from the > prompt.
Scott.
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