HP b1000 manual Searching for Bootable Media

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 Other 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 Ultra2 Wide LVD SCSI bus.
scsi	Is the built-in Fast Narrow Single-Ended SCSI bus.
lan	Is all connections to the built-in LAN.
pcin	Is an optional SCSI interface in slot number n.
ide	Is a built-in IDE bus.

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