RIO Remote I/O System User Guide
RIO system commands under Solaris/Linux/LynxOS
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Chapter 5 RIO command line utilities
rioboot
Operating systems Available under: Solaris, Linux, and LynxOS.
Function Boots the host cards and RTAs, to generate and apply rio.cf settings.
Syntax rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-v] [-s]
rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-v] -u
rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-f] [-v] -w
rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-f] [-v] -a
Argument
descriptions
Examples rioboot -f boots the RIO driver, even if no rio.cf file exists. Typically this is used during
system installation or initialisation scripts.
rioboot -w outputs the current configuration to stdout, typically redir ected into a configuration
file such as rio.cf.
rioboot -u updates the driver settings with any changes made to the rio.c f file.
Argument Description
[-c file] Specifies an alternate configuration file.
[-h] Prints a usage message
[-v] Reports any anomalies or errors to the standard error file
descriptor.
[-s] Performs a syntax check on the configuration file.
-u You can use the rioboot -u command to update the driver
with any changes that have been made to the configuration
file after the driver has been initialised.
[-f] Forces the Driver to attempt to boot even if no configuration
file exists.
-w You can use the rioboot -w command to output the current
configuration of the driver in the format of the configuratio n
file.
-a Outputs the current configuration to stdout (same as -w),
but automatically allocates unassigned RTA system port
numbers.