Re: magic sysrq via minicom during serial install?

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 05:38:25PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I plugged in a null-modem serial cable and am able to happily able to do a
> serial install. Theoretically, one sends "BREAK-t" to do the equivalent of
> alt-sysrq-t at a vt, but doesn't seem to have any effect -- the break seems
> to hang the connection, and then I get nuthin'. What I am I doing wrong?

To answer my own question -- turns out I needed to hit sysrq on the keyboard
actually plugged into the machine -- that didn't get redirected to the
serial console.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>


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