[rescue] sparc5 power was: Sparc 1, 2, 4

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Sep 9 22:39:11 CDT 2001


On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:29:34PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> I have a sparc5 that USED to power itself off when it was halted, it 
> doesn't anymore.  Now, my memory doesn't serve me too well, it may have 
> powered itself off when i had linux on it, and not since i installed 
> solaris, but, can i get solaris to turn the machine off so i know it's 
> halted?

I had a SS5-170 once that would ONLY power on when you used the power key
on the keyboard - but the power switch on the back would turn it off just
fine.

made it real interesting to boot headless - hit power switch, yank
keyboard before it probed... 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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