I have a problem that I thought someone might have experienced before.  I am trying to get the machine to boot from an install cd, but things aren't going as planned.
 
I have a sun blade, with only USB keyboard/mouse input.   It is currently running solaris 9, but it is flaky - meaning, when I try to open a shell console, CDE gets a black background, and no shell opens.  The mouse and window manager remain responsive, but I can't get to a shell to init 0.

Since there is no sun keyboard, stop-a isn't available.  Ctrl-break should work, but it isn't working via the usb keyboard adapter.
 
I tried the 'hit the power button after initial beep,' but that doesn't get me any closer to an openboot prompt.

Any ideas?
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