Re: How to force an interactive boot (Monitor)

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 00:00

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In <4odo1l$nlv@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> "w.c. trenholm" <wally@mustang.uwo.ca> writes:

>I was wondering if anyone could answer a simple question:

>How can you force a system to give you the monitor prompt when it is 
>tring to boot off a network, and you do not have a machine that can do 
>RARP on the subnet, let alone network boot a Sparc.

>Is there a button I can hold down so I can reset the boot device???

Hold down the 'L1' key top-left on keyboard) and press 'A'. This causes
the system to abort back to the monitor prompt. Do *not* do this when a
kernel is running, otherwise you *must* type 'g0' *immediately* after the
abort to flush the filesystem buffers. 

Regards,

Craig.
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From: craig@zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: How to force an interactive boot (Monitor)
Date: 1996/05/29
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