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CUI & OSMM
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:53 am
by Perica
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Re:CUI & OSMM
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:59 am
by Pype.Clicker
i think this is a good idea ... a full graphical networked operating system requires too much components, so if some of one goes wrong, we need a way to perform recovery operations from something simpler (like saving mandatory files, creating backup of the configuration, etc.)
I don't know whether it's something revolutionnary as "linux init=/bin/sh" does something very similar, and Sun's X terminal i've seen had a small recovery mode where you could enter commands like reboot, set up the bootp server, get a IP address, etc ...
Re:CUI & OSMM
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 8:04 am
by _mark
Don't the old SUN IPCs have a STOP key on the keyboard that dropped you into a shell running in ring 0?
It was something like ALT-STOP or ALT-SHIFT-STOP. Or was it just a pseudo shell that only let you halt and reboot? There was something there, I just cannot remember the details.
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Re:CUI & OSMM
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 8:07 am
by distantvoices
with something like ALT+STOP (I have noted it at home) you can enter the prom-shell of a sun sparc station f. ex. It feases excange of boot media. You can tell it even to boot via network from a remote host, thus making it a diskless terminal. Or X-Terminal. I'll look at my notes at home, and give you the proper shortcut to enter prom-console.
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