The Boot Console Interface

Searching for Bootable Media

Searching for Bootable Media

To list devices that contain bootable media, follow the directions in “Access- ing the Boot Console Interface” earlier in this appendix, and then type the following at the prompt:

Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > 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 performing the following steps:

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To hold the display temporarily, press Ctrl S

 

 

 

 

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To continue the display, press

Ctrl

 

Q

 

•To halt the search, press any other 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 appendix, and then type the following at the prompt:

Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > search ipl device_type

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

slotn.fwscsi is an optional fast, wide SCSI interface in slot number n

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