[SunRescue] timeout help

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Mar 18 00:23:54 CST 2000


On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:41:41AM -0800, Chris Drelich wrote:
> I just went to go setup my ss20.  However, as it boots Im constantly getting
> "Network Timeouts and ARP Timeouts."  Is there anyway to stop this and get to
> an OpenBoot prompt?  Right now I have to do this all from a WYSE Terminal, so
> no stop or pause or such buttons.
> Chris

If you've got the PC-style 101-key keyboard, try ctrl+break or shift+break
(where break = "pause").  I think that usually does it.. Or you can try 
turning off and turning back on the terminal - this will usually generate a
BREAK and drop you to the ROM (at least this did at ioNET in '95...)

Bill

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