I need a KVM switch. And a UPS.

We had a power outage about half an hour ago here, and now western isn't coming up again. This is because I've been too lazy thus far to configure SILO right so that it will boot without a prompt; and I don't remember what I need to send it to make it boot (no, just plainly enter doesn't seem to work).

The firmware is supposed to support a serial console, too; but I can't find my null modem cable in the mess that is currently my room. Besides, I don't recall how to configure the sparc's firmware to go to serial console, so even if I did find it, it wouldn't help me. Sigh

Guess I'll have to crawl under my desk, grab the monitor cable, disconnect it, throw it to the other end of the desk, crawl under the desk again, connect it to the sparc, and reboot it. I so need a KVM switch. And a UPS.

If anyone reading this has some of those to spare, they'd get, uhm, my eternal gratitude