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If you do not know the locations of the bootable operating systems on the various media in y our ￿le system, y ou can ￿nd them with the searc h command.

You may also boot the system from the main men Interface by typing this command at the prompt \

u of the Boot Console User

Select from menu: "

b device path 4Return5

where device path is a designator for the path to the device that con tains a bootable ￿le system.

Searching for Bootable Media

The initial searc h conducted by the boot console user in terface locates devices that might contain bootable media. This searc h might ￿nd a DDS-format tape drive which actually does not con tain a bootable tape. T o check to see which devices actually con tain bootable media, t ype the following at the

prompt:

search 4Return5

This causes your system to searc h exhaustively for bootable media. It searc hes all types of I/O devices in the following order:

1.Built-in SCSI.

2.Built-in LAN.

3.VME backplane network.

The search may turn up more devices than there are lines on y our display. If you are using a text terminal, y ou may control the progress of the searc h from your terminal's k eyboard by performing one or more of the follo wing steps:

 

To hold the displa y temporarily , press 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

CTRL

5-4S

5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To continue the display, press 4

 

5-4

 

5.

 

 

B

 

CTRL

Q

 

 

 

To halt the search, press 4

 

5.

 

 

ESC

 

 

 

 

 

These ￿ow-control commands do not w ork with a bitmapped displa y, but such

a display can show more than forty lines of text, so y ou are unlik ely to need

 

them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the Boot ROM

B-7

FINAL TRIM SIZE : 7.0 in x 8.5 in