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The Boot Console Interface Searching for Bootable Media Searching for Bootable Media To list devices that contain bootable media, follow the directions in "Accessing the Boot Console Interface" earlier in this chapter, and then type the following at the prompt and press Enter: Main Menu: Enter command> search ipl The search command searches all buses. The search may turn up more devices than there are lines on your display. If you are using a text terminal, you may control the progress of the search from your terminal's keyboard by using these keystrokes: Ctrl-S Temporarily suspends the search. Ctrl-Q Continues the search. Any Key Stops the search. These flow-control keystrokes do not work with a bitmapped display, but such a display can show more than forty lines of text, so you are unlikely to need them. To search for devices of just one type that actually contain bootable media, follow the directions in "Accessing the Boot Console Interface" earlier in this chapter, and then type the following at the prompt and press Enter: Main Menu: Enter command> search ipl 〈device_type〉 where 〈device_type〉 is one of the following: fwscsi Is the built-in fast, wide SCSI bus. scsi Is the built-in single-ended SCSI bus. lan Is all connections to the built-in LAN. pcin Is an optional fast, wide SCSI interface in slot number n. Chapter 8 145

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Chapter 8
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The Boot Console Interface
Searching for Bootable Media
Searching for Bootable Media
To list devices that contain bootable media, follow the directions in
“Accessing the Boot Console Interface” earlier in this chapter, and then
type the following at the prompt and press
Enter
:
Main Menu: Enter command> search ipl
The search command searches all buses. The search may turn up more
devices than there are lines on your display. If you are using a text
terminal, you may control the progress of the search from your terminal’s
keyboard by using these keystrokes:
Ctrl-S
Temporarily suspends the search.
Ctrl-Q
Continues the search.
Any Key
Stops the search.
These flow-control keystrokes do not work with a bitmapped display, but
such a display can show more than forty lines of text, so you are unlikely
to need them.
To search for devices of just one type that actually contain bootable
media, follow the directions in “Accessing the Boot Console Interface”
earlier in this chapter, and then type the following at the prompt and
press
Enter
:
Main Menu: Enter command> search ipl
device_type
where
device_type
is one of the following:
fwscsi
Is the built-in fast, wide SCSI bus.
scsi
Is the built-in single-ended SCSI bus.
lan
Is all connections to the built-in LAN.
pci
n
Is an optional fast, wide SCSI interface in slot number
n
.