Sun Microsystems CP3250 manual Secondary Bios Image, # clia sendcmd 96 2e 81 00 00 2a

5.7Secondary BIOS Image

The Sun Netra CP3250 blade server provides dual 1-Mbyte BIOS chips that support redundant BIOS images for increased reliability. The default chip (page 0) acts as the primary BIOS chip and is automatically selected for update during a firmware upgrade. The secondary BIOS chip (page 1) retains the original BIOS image, and can be used through manual configuration in the unlikely case where the primary BIOS becomes corrupt.

If the primary BIOS becomes unbootable, use the secondary BIOS to manually boot the blade server:

1.Log into the Shelf Manager.

2.To select the secondary BIOS image, type:

#clia sendcmd 96 2e 81 00 00 2a 01

For example:

# clia sendcmd 96 2e 81 00 00 2a 01 <			----- Setting the boot page to 1
Pigeon Point Shelf Manager Command Line Interpreter
Completion code: 0x0	(0)	<-----	successful completion code
Response data: 00 00	2A	<-----	no data returned

3.To boot the blade server from the Shelf Manager, type:

#clia activate board n

Note – Once the blade server is booted, reset the blade server to use the primary BIOS image (page 0).

Chapter 5 Configuring and Using BIOS Firmware 5-7