Re: resetting console from rsc to ttya on a Sun v890

From: J S (js.tech.mailer@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2006 - 00:12:54 EDT


 Thanks for all the suggestions. The various timings to wait for the
flashing amber light and resetting nvram from within RSC continued to not
work (the rsc approach I think for the same reason input was denied), but
keyswitching into diag mode worked.

On 4/19/06, J S <js.tech.mailer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> While setting intput-device and output-device to rsc-console on a v890, I
> typoed the input device and reset. When I shut the system down and try to
> reboot and press the power button with one second intervals the system
shuts
> down. I read an earlier list message about waiting a bit, but everytime I
> wait a few seconds (up to about 5 minutes) the system still shuts down with
> button pressing. Is there a specific number of seconds to wait, or is there
> something in the boot output I can key the reset from?
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