[geeks] Stop-A on VT525

[Mark Benson]

Y'all can put the clue bats down, it works fine.

FYI on a VT F5 sends a break and will stop a Sun and drop it to the OBP. I
don't know what was stopping it working in the netboot loop. Maybe I hit
something else then that... User ID10T error. :D

-- 
Mark Benson


On 17 Jan 2017 9:19 p.m., "Mark Benson" <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 17/01/2017 19:30, Mouse wrote:
>
>> I currently have my Netra T1-105 hooked up to a VT525 DEC terminal
>>> and am trying to persuade it to talk to me.
>>>
>>
>> It works, unsurprisingly, but I can't Stop-A it from the Terminal to
>>> drop onto the OBP prompt.
>>>
>>
>> Anyone know the key incantation for that on a real VT?
>>>
>>
>> I don't know the Netra or the VT525.  But Suns of my experience running
>> with serial console do that on break.  So, I'd suggest you start by
>> figuring out how to make the VT525 generate a break condition on the
>> serial line.
>>
>
> That was my first assumption. I hit F5 because that' sends a break and it
> didn't. Hence my confusion. I probably missed something.
>
> Either that or I am forgetting something about UltraSPARC II era hardware?
> I yanked the hard drives while I test it ant it's trying to netboot (it'll
> struggle!) So it's stuck in a timeout loop. From my memory Stop-A/BREAK
> drops it out of the loop to the OBP?
>
> Re-educate me with heavy wooden objects if I'm wrong there by all means :)
>
> --
>
> Mark Benson
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