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Debugger General Information

The ASCII string ÒBOOTÓ must be located within the specified memory range

Your routine must pass a checksum test, which ensures that this routine was really intended to receive control at power- up

For complete details on how to use ROMboot, refer to the Debugging Package for Motorola 68K CISC CPUs User's Manual.

Network Boot

Network Auto Boot is a software routine contained in the 177Bug EPROMs that provides a mechanism for booting an operating system using a network (local Ethernet interface) as the boot device. The Network Auto Boot routine automatically scans for controllers and devices in a specified sequence until a valid bootable device containing a boot media is found or the list is exhausted. If a valid bootable device is found, a boot from that device begins. The controller scanning sequence goes from the lowest controller Logical Unit Number (LUN) detected to the highest LUN detected.

At power-up, Network Boot is enabled, and providing the drive and controller numbers encountered are valid, the following message displays on the system console:

"Network Boot in progress... To abort hit <BREAK>"

Following this message there is a delay to allow you to abort the Auto Boot process if you wish. Then the actual I/O begins: the program pointed to within the volume ID of the media specified loads into RAM and control passes to it. If, however, during this time you want to gain control without Network Boot, you can pres the:

BREAK key

Software ABORT switch

RESET switch

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