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Boot Administration, Environment

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When the search ends, the following list of actions appears: b) Boot from specified device s) Search for bootable devices a) Enter boot administration mode x) Exit and continue boot sequence ?) Help Select from menu: Ifnodiskdevices are listed. thenyour workstaton isfailing tocommunicate with its disks. Recheck the SCSI connections andtryagain. Ifnodevicesarelisted at all. alternative methodsforbootinq b shouldbetried, suchasconnecting anexternal CD -ROMdrive. s. Ifthesearch locates adisk, attempt to boot fromitby entering the b(boot) command and a device selection number from the list. For example. if a SCSI disk is listed as item PO(as in the example list above), enter the following: Select from menu: b PO [=) After a few seconds, the boot messages begin to appear on the screen. You may hear sounds coming from the disk drive and see a sequence of changing patterns on the LED display. a. If your workstation still fails to boot, there is either something wrong with the file system or with the hardware. Boot Administration Environment The Boot Console User Interface provides an "interactive" environment after the power- on sequence. The Boot Console User Interface must be invoked before the Initial Program Loader (IPL) routine. Users do not have to interact with the interface when the AUTOSELECT mode is enabled. The Boot Console User Interface executes user-entered commands that perform the following functions: Display the state of Autoselect mode using the AUTO command. Set the state of the Autoselect mode using the AUTOSELECT command with either the ON/ OFF option. Boot from the primary or alternate boot path or any specified path using the BOOT command. Set or display the real-time clock value usinGg the DATE command. Troubleshooting 4-13

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When the search ends, the following list of actions appears:
b)
Boot from specified device
s)
Search for bootable devices
a)
Enter boot administration
mode
x)
Exit and continue boot sequence
?)
Help
Select from menu:
Ifnodiskdevices
are listed. thenyour workstaton isfailing tocommunicate
with its disks. Recheck the SCSI connections andtryagain.
Ifnodevicesarelisted
at all. alternative methodsforbootinq
shouldbetried,
b
suchasconnecting
anexternal CD –ROMdrive.
s.
Ifthesearch
locates adisk, attempt to boot fromitby
entering the b(boot)
command and a device selection number from the list. For example. if a SCSI
disk is listed as item PO(as in the example list above), enter the
following:
Select from menu:
b PO [=)
After a few seconds, the boot messages begin to appear on the screen. You
may hear sounds coming from the disk drive and see a sequence of changing
patterns on the LED display.
a.
If your workstation still fails to boot, there is either something wrong with
the file system or with the hardware.
Boot Administration
Environment
The Boot Console User Interface provides an “interactive” environment after the
power– on sequence. The Boot Console User Interface must be invoked before
the Initial Program Loader (IPL) routine. Users do not have to interact with the
interface when the AUTOSELECT
mode is enabled.
The Boot Console User Interface executes user–entered commands that perform
the following functions:
Display the state of Autoselect mode using the AUTO command.
Set the state of the Autoselect mode using the AUTOSELECT command
with either the ON/ OFF option.
Boot from the primary or alternate boot path or any specified path using
the BOOT command.
Set or display the real–time clock value using the DATE command.
G
Troubleshooting
4–13