[geeks] Stop-A on VT525

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Jan 18, 2017 04:01, <walter+rescue at belgers.com> wrote:

> On 18 Jan 2017, at 00:24, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI on a VT F5 sends a break and will stop a Sun and drop it to the OBP. I
> don't know what was stopping it working in the netboot loop. Maybe I hit
> something else then that... User ID10T error. :D

I have plenty of serial cables that shortcut the BREAK wire, so pressing
break
on the console will not send an actual break to the system. So check to see
how your cable is wired.


I don't understand how that could work, since Break is sent over the
regular TxD line.

Pat