Re: OpenBSD Blade 100, SATA, sili(4), and 'break' or 'STOP-A' from Linux or OS X

> Has anyone a Linux or Mac OS X terminal emulator hint, tip, trick,
> that might help me with sending the ever-sought 'STOP-A'?

Serial console?

I don't know the Blade 100.  Indeed, I have fairly little experience
with any post-Sbus Sun.  But on the ones I have used, the
serial-console analog of L1-A is a break condition.  How you send this
depends on your serial comm program.  (This depends on your terminal
emulator only if (a) the two are rolled into one or (b) the comm
program wants a particularly outré keystroke of input.)

This may be documented as a `break character'.  There is no such thing
(a break is a condition on the serial line that violates the framing
conventions; it is not a character), but a lot of comm program
documentation doesn't seem to realize this.

> I performed a 'set-defaults' and 'reset-all' without thinking it
> through.  Now Blade-unhappy-spare wants a net-boot.

Have you considered just giving it a netboot environment?  Not that
that would fix your boot settings - but then you could use the OS, once
booted, to do so.

(I'm not in a position to say anything useful about either of your
other questions.)

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