[SunRescue] Booting from CDROM on a Sparcstation IPX

[Tom Yarrish]

To all who helped,
Thanks a lot, I got the CD booting and I'm running the Debian install now.  Again I appreciate the help.

Thanks,
Tom

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On 5/10/00 at 3:43 AM Martin Frost wrote:

>Tom Yarrish wrote:
>
>> Okay, so the question becomes, how do I get it to that prompt where I
>> can type "b".
>
>If you're using it with a real keyboard and monitor, type L1-A.
>(The L1 key may be labelled `Stop' if you have a recent keyboard.)
>
>If you're using a serial console, send it a break. (Consult your
>terminal or terminal emulator's documentation.)
>
>You can do this at any point, unless the machine has crashed very
>hard (rare). In general, it's not a good idea to do it when the OS
>is running, but since the worst that can happen is that you lose
>data from the disks, and you're going to wipe them anyway, just do it. ;)
>
>It also goes to that prompt if there is a complete failure to boot
>the kernel, which is why you saw it before.
>
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