I had the same problem about two years ago. I believe I used what this post says: http://sunportal.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2003-October/004407.html Crtl # Brock On 8/23/05, Brent <bfriedman at exstream.com> wrote: > > I have a problem that I thought someone might have experienced before. I am > trying to get the machine to boot from an install cd, but things aren't > going as planned. > > I have a sun blade, with only USB keyboard/mouse input. It is currently > running solaris 9, but it is flaky - meaning, when I try to open a shell > console, CDE gets a black background, and no shell opens. The mouse and > window manager remain responsive, but I can't get to a shell to init 0. > > Since there is no sun keyboard, stop-a isn't available. Ctrl-break should > work, but it isn't working via the usb keyboard adapter. > > I tried the 'hit the power button after initial beep,' but that doesn't get > me any closer to an openboot prompt. > > Any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >