Hi,

thanks for all the replies. Just for the record, I replaced the serial=20=

cable and now ESC brings me into PROM. Mea culpa...

Thanks,
/Markus.

Am Dienstag den, 10. September 2002, um 19:30, schrieb Markus B=F6ing:

> Ladies and Gents,
>
> may I ask a very basic question regarding SGI Indy operation?
>
> I recently acquired an Indy w/o monitor that I would like to use with=20=

> NetBSD as a lab server. My problem is that I am running the box =
headless=20
> and I cannot get it into PROM mode. I can see the request to press ESC=20=

> during boot up but it seems that I cannot force the box into PROM from=20=

> the serial console. Any ideas how to do that? BTW I cannot access the =
box=20
> once it booted up. It responds neither to serial console nor to =
telnet.=20
> Most probably the operating system is screwed up badly.
>
> TIA
>
> Best regards,
> /Markus.
>
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