For the life of me I cannot figure out how to interrupt the boot of my Sparc 5 via a serial terminal. I am sending breaks from the terminal (minicom) like crazy during startup yet the system is hell-bent on booting up UNIX like the reliable beast it always has been. I also inserted my Solaris CD, which I thought was bootable but to no avail. The CD is titled Solaris 2.6 Hardware: 3/98 Software.

Below are the startup messages - if I understand correctly I should be able to send a break before the "Boot device" appears in order to get to a > or ok prompt. I've not booted it in 8 years, have forgotten the login and I simply want to wipe and reinstall the OS and I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!

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SPARCstation 5, No Keyboard
ROM Rev. 2.15, 192 MB memory installed, Serial #7556283.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:4a:3c:43, Host ID: 80443c43.



Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,0  File and args:
SunOS Release 5.5.1 Version Generic [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Copyright (c) 1983-1996, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
configuring network interfaces: le0.
Hostname: soitgoes
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0) is being checked.
/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0: 1294 files, 11313 used, 2414 free
/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0: (70 frags, 293 blocks,  0.5% fragmentation)
Configuring GAD devices