On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:48 -0400, Brent wrote: [snip] > 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. Hmm. Reminds me of how X11 would sometimes behave if it ran out of colors in the 8-bit palette, but Blades are supposed to have 24-bit color, right? Heh, I suppose you could try loading Emacs and then run a shell from there ;-) > 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. From what I've read, it sounds like CTRL-Break should do the trick. If you end up using a serial console, some terminal emulators have special commands to allow you to send the Stop-A sequence. -- Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050823/aa0c2576/attachment.pgp