Step 5. Booting The Diskless/Dataless Client - IBM R/S6000 7012 300 Series Operator's Manual

Step 5. Booting the Diskless/Dataless Client

5.1 At the Main Menu, select Exit Main Menu & Start System (Boot) (option 4).
The Starting System (BOOT) screen displays.
5.2 Turn the key mode switch to the Normal position, and press Enter to continue booting
the system.
5.3 The Booting .
begin booting. This first boot will take a number of minutes—please be patient
(subsequent boots will be faster). At times you may not see any indications of activity
on your screen, but the numbers in your three-digit display will be changing as the
boot progresses. Eventually your screen will go blank. Then after several minutes
c31 will appear on the three-digit display.
5.4 Each terminal and direct-attached display device (or console) attached to your
system will then show a message asking you to select your system console. Your
console is the screen and keyboard that you will be using to manage your system.
Press the specified keys only on the keyboard you want to use as your system
console.
Your system will resume the boot process.
5.5 A login prompt should display on your console when the system has finished booting
(this may take a while). As booting progresses, the numbers in the three-digit display
will change.
Note: During the boot process the message Multi-user initialization
completed will display and the system will appear to be inactive for 2–3 minutes.
This does not mean the system has completed booting. Please be patient, the login
prompt will eventually display.
When the login prompt appears, you have completed the hardware setup of your
system. You must now complete the software setup for this machine—especially your
network configuration (see the following Note).
Note: Even though you can now boot from your network server, this machine is not yet fully
configured to use the network. If you want to have full network functionality for this
machine you must complete the network configuration procedures. You may also
need to perform other software configuration tasks such as configuring your display
and setting date and time. To complete your software setup, do one of the following:
– If you are using AIX as your operating system, you should now go to the AIX
– If you want to run a non-AIX operating system on this client, you should now reset
. Please Wait message displays and your system will
. .
Installation Guide , and begin the procedures setting up the display device.
the built-in network configuration information (BOOT device on the Main Menu) so
that the client will boot from the non-AIX-AIX Version 3.2 server. Then reboot the
client.
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