Solaris 9 Sun Hardware Platform Guide

Stop-N Equivalent

  1. After turning on the power to your system, wait until the front panel power button LED begins to blink and you hear an audible beep.

  2. Quickly press the front panel power button twice (similar to the way you would double-click a mouse).

    A screen similar to the following is displayed to indicate that you have successfully reset the NVRAM contents to the default values:


    Sun Blade 1000 (2 X UltraSPARC-III) , Keyboard Present
    OpenBoot 4.0, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #12134241.
    Ethernet address 8:0:20:b9:27:61, Host ID: 80b92761.
    
    
    Safe NVRAM mode, the following nvram configuration variables have
    been overridden:
      `diag-switch?' is true
      `use-nvramrc?' is false
      `input-device', `output-device' are defaulted
      `ttya-mode', `ttyb-mode' are defaulted
    
    These changes are temporary and the original values will be restored
    after the next hardware or software reset.
                                                                          
    ok

Note that some NVRAM configuration parameters are reset to their defaults. They include parameters that are more likely to cause problems, such as TTYA settings. These NVRAM settings are only reset to the defaults for this power cycle. If you do nothing other than reset the machine at this point, the values are not permanently changed. Only settings that you change manually at this point become permanent. All other customized NVRAM settings are retained.

Typing set-defaults discards any customized NVRAM values and permanently restores the default settings for all NVRAM configuration parameters.


Note -

Once the power button LED stops blinking and stays lit, pressing the power button again will power off the system.