NOTE

NOTE

Solving Problems

Dealing with a Boot Failure

Dealing with a Boot Failure

If your usual boot device (typically a disk) is not responding as it should, you must try to boot from the disk (or another boot device) by selecting it manually. Note that you must be superuser (root) to perform the steps in this section.

To boot a device manually, follow these steps:

A common cause of boot failures is forgetting to connect your Ultra2 Wide Low-Voltage Differential SCSI terminator and your Fast Narrow Single-Ended SCSI terminator to their connectors on the back of your system unit. Note that these terminators were shipped with your system unit.

1.Follow the directions in “Accessing the Boot Console Interface,” in Chapter 6 of this document.

Your computer automatically shuts down the operating system before it terminates the power.

2.At the Main Menu prompt, type the following and press Enter:

Main Menu: Enter command > search ipl

This causes you computer to search exhaustively for bootable media.

3.Boot from one of the listed devices by typing the following at the prompt and press Enter:

Main Menu: Enter command > boot device

where device is the hardware path to the device, specified in mnemonic style notation, such as FWSCSI.5.0.

4. Answer “N” to the question, INTERACT WITH IPL (Y,N,Q)?

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c3700 specifications

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