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Board self testing

The board is steady

 

SlotNo of this board is 6

 

The MCX is exist

 

BootRom main system CRC check is OK

 

82559 register testing is OK

 

EPLD1 testing is OK

 

EPLD2 testing is OK

 

16c2552 register testing is OK

 

Please check LEDs

LED testing finished

The switch Mac address is 00e0.fc00.1111

Press Ctrl+B to enter Boot Menu...

5

Password :

 

1Press <Ctrl+B> as prompted to display the system Password : prompt.

n To enter the Boot menu, you must press <Ctrl+B> within five seconds after the appearance of the “Press Ctrl-B to enter Boot menu...” prompt. Otherwise, the program decompression process begins. To access the Boot menu after the switch enters the program decompression process, you need to restart the switch.

2Enter the Boot ROM password (the switch’s default is no password). The Boot menu displays as follows:

c CAUTION: Make sure you have Boot ROM password.

MAIN MENU

1.Boot with default mode

2.Boot from Flash

3.Boot from HardDisk

4.Enter serial submenu

5.Enter ethernet submenu

6.Modify Flash description area

7.Modify bootrom password

0. Reboot

Enter your choice(0-7):

3Ensure that the upgraded host program is compatible with the existing I/O module’s Boot ROM program. Otherwise, you must upgrade it during a host program upgrade.

4When loading the host program through the Boot menu, configure the serial interface’s attributes as shown in Figure 62. Otherwise, the Hyper Terminal does not respond.

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8810, 8814, 8807 specifications

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