On Jul 8, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> Sorry to ask this here, but searching on this problem hasn't exactly
> been easy. I'm hoping someone just knows this.
>
> I found an Ultra1 at work with one of the older motherboards (and an
> 140 something megahertz processor) so I'm going to play with it a
> little. I connected it to a grimdows box with a serial cable and
> Hyperterminal. I saw the firmware go through the boot stages, but I
> didn't know how to stop it. I can't really type stop-a. I did notice
> that after I shut it down it went to the ok prompt. I'm thinking of
> netbooting it and I'd like to be able to stop it from booting from the
> serial console.
>
> Any ideas on how I might do this?

   You want to send it a "break" signal...that's the serial console 
equivalent of stop-A.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire             "...it's a matter of how tightly
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