[Gllug] openboot on a sparc via minicom

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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Tethys said:
> Adrian McMenamin writes:
> 
>>To be able to get anywhere I think I need to access the openboot - can I do 
>>this over a terminal? If so, how?
> 
> Send a break. In minicom, that's "Ctrl-A F".

My boxes do this while rebooting, too :( which means that I can't leave
the cable plugged in, or taking one box down zaps the next one until the
first box is up far enough (and even then it's tricky as my home
directory is on the Sun which has just been taken down by that damned
BREAK).

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