Booting to a Partition

To list the available devices in the boot list:

racadm getconfig –g cfgServerInfo –o cfgServerFirstBootDevice

If it is a vFlash SD card, the label names of the attached partitions appears in the boot list. If it is a standard SD card and if the partition is attached, then VFLASH appears in the boot list.

To set a vFlash partition as a boot device:

racadm config –g cfgServerInfo –o cfgServerFirstBootDevice “<vFlash partition name>”

where, <vFlash partition name> is the label name for vFlash SD card and VFLASH for the standard SD card.

NOTE: When you run this command, the vFlash partition label is automatically set to boot once, that is, cfgserverBootOnce is set to 1. Boot once boots the device to the partition only once and does not keep it persistently first in the boot order.

Attaching or Detaching a Partition

To attach a partition:

racadm config –g cfgvflashpartition –i 1 –o cfgvflashPartitionAttachState 1

To detach a partition:

racadm config –g cfgvflashpartition –i 1 –o cfgvflashPartitionAttachState 0

Modifying a Partition

To change a read-only partition to read-write:

racadm config –g cfgvflashpartition –i 1 –o cfgvflashPartitionAccessType 1

To change a read-write partition to read-only:

racadm config –g cfgvflashpartition –i 1 –o cfgvflashPartitionAccessType 0

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