Mounting The Ls240 Device - Intel SR870BN4 Quick Start Manual

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8. Use the arrow key to access the Exit menu and select the item to save changes and exit the
BIOS Setup Utility. After you exit the utility the boot procedure resumes. You can monitor
the remainder of the boot progress on the video display.
NOTE
POST checks the drive carriers, processors, memory, keyboard, and most
installed peripheral devices. During the memory test, POST displays the
amount of memory it is able to access and test. The length of time needed to
test memory depends on the amount of memory installed. POST is stored in
flash memory.
9. The AMI BIOS banner displays the loaded versions of the BIOS, PAL, SAL, and EFI.
10. The LSI banner appears and indicates the recognized drives. Note, a Platform Configuration
EFI based configuration utility is required to enter the LSI SCSI utility. The QLogic SCSI
utility enables you to manage and configure the server's SCSI devices. For information on the
Platform Configuration Tool EFI utility and the screens available in this utility, see the
Intel SR870BN4 Server System Product Guide.
11. POST concludes and passes control to the Boot Manager.
12. From the Boot Manager, you can use arrow keys to highlight the option that invokes the EFI
Shell, or you can highlight and select the Boot Maintenance Menu. Booting to the EFI Shell
causes the following prompt to appear:
Shell>
13. Mount the LS240 device as block zero. For information on how to mount this device, see
"Mounting the LS240 Device" below.
14. Boot the operating system that you want to run on the server.

Mounting the LS240 Device

Before you can use the LS240 device to read media, you must mount the device. Follow these
steps to mount the LS240 device:
1. Be sure that you are in the EFI Shell. You should see the following prompt:
Shell>
2. Insert media into the LS240 drive. You can place any floppy into the drive, an LS240 diskette
or a 3.5-inch 1.4 MB floppy disk. The media does not need to contain files. In order for the
mount command in the next step to work, the drive must be loaded with media.
3. At the shell prompt, enter the following command:
map -r
The media in the LS240 should get remapped to one of the file systems. Ie FS0:, FS1:, FS2.
Change to the appropriate file system and enter the following command:
ls
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