Disabling Sun keyboard abort sequence

The default keyboard abort sequence on a Solaris system is sent with the L1-A or STOP-A keys pressed together on an attached Sun keyboard, or the BREAK signal on the serial console.

Inserting or unplugging a keyboard on a running Sun system will also send an abort sequence, effectively dropping you to the Open Boot Prompt ("ok" prompt).

To disable the keyboard abort sequence for the current session:
kbd -a disable

To disable the keyboard abort sequence for future sessions (i.e. after a system reboot), change the following in /etc/default/keyboard.

From:
#KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable

To:
KEYBOARD_ABORT=enable

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Disabling Sun keyboard abort sequence

Last modified: 03/29/2004