How to get to the OK prompt without Sun keyboard


 
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# 8  
Old 04-20-2004
avoid useing halt and powroff. halt and poweroff are the same for all intesive purposes.

they can leave the fs in an instable state. but they will bring it back to a OBP.
# 9  
Old 04-21-2004
I had to set a Solaris machine (Solaris 9) using a dumb terminal. So the sun keyboard wasn't used.

I use Ctrl + C to break into the ok> prompt. This worked fine for me.

Give it a go.
# 10  
Old 04-21-2004
I have tried everything...but no luck...
I think that I will pop down the shop to buy a Sun keyboard!

The issue is that there is no OS on the HD.
When Solaris 9 was installed on the old HD I was able to get to the OK prompt by unplagging the keyboard or the Sun adapter.

Now as soon I power on, the machine tryes to boot off the network and there is nothing I can do, can't type anything and key combinations doesn't work:-(
# 11  
Old 05-11-2004
sync;sync;halt;
always works!
# 12  
Old 05-11-2004
stop-n will set all the nvram variables back to the defaults and you should then be able to get to OBP then you can check if your drive is installed then you should be able to boot off cdrom and get to the install
# 13  
Old 02-24-2009
Stop A on PC Keyboard

My Situation was with a SUN T2000 at a remote site connected by serial cabe to a PC running FREEBSD. I connect to the SUN via MInicom modem app and when I rebooted I got a prompt telling me it could not find the boot file.

I used SEND BREAK from within minicom and it acted just like a STOP A.

-Nuff Said.
# 14  
Old 02-25-2009
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