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