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Searching for Bootable Media, Resetting the Workstation

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Searching for Bootable Media To list all devices that may contain bootable media, follow the directions in "Accessing the Boot Console Interface" earlier in this chapter, and then type the following at the prompt: Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > search ipl Enter 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 performing the following steps: D To hold the display temporarily, press Ctrl S D To continue the display, press Ctrl Q D To halt the search, press any key These flow-control commands 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: Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > search ipl device_type Enter 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 Resetting the Workstation Hard Reset To hard reset your workstation, follow the directions in "Accessing the Boot Console Interface" earlier in this chapter, and then type the following at the prompt: Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > reset Enter Soft Reset To soft reset your workstation (to reset without destroying data in memory, for example), press the "TOC" button below the SCSI connectors on the rear of the I/O bulkhead. 9-4 Boot Console

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9–4
Boot Console
Searching for Bootable Media
To list all devices that may contain bootable media, follow the directions in “Acces-
sing the Boot Console Interface” earlier in this chapter, and then type the following at
the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
search ipl
Enter
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 performing the following steps:
D
To hold the display temporarily, press
Ctrl
S
D
To continue the display, press
Ctrl
Q
D
To halt the search, press any key
These flow-control commands 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:
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
search ipl
device_type
Enter
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
Resetting the Workstation
Hard Reset
To hard reset your workstation, follow the directions in “Accessing the Boot Console
Interface” earlier in this chapter, and then type the following at the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
reset
Enter
Soft Reset
To soft reset your workstation (to reset without destroying data in memory, for exam-
ple), press the “TOC” button below the SCSI connectors on the rear of the I/O bulk-
head.