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To save the collected information:
1. Attach a USB key at the front of the server. If you are working remotely from
the server, attach the USB key locally at your workstation and mount it as an
accessible remote device at the Remote Supervisor remote media window.
2. Use the command copy to save the data to a local or remote USB storage
device. See Example 6-7.
Example 6-7 DSA Preboot command line: mounted USB storage devices
>copy
1: SanDisk Cruzer Micr
2: USB 2.0 Flash Disk
Enter Number (type x to exit)
Note: The example shows two mounted USB devices. Number 1 in this
example is an attached Hypervisor key. You cannot use this device to save
any captured data.
3. Unmount the USB storage device. The data is now available for reviewing by
you and by IBM Service.
Save the collected information in the operating system
The internal 4 GB flash device is hidden in the operating system by default.
To retrieve the DSA logs that the DSA Preboot collected, enable this device
temporarily and make it show up as a drive in your operating system. Do this by
pressing Ctrl+End on your keyboard during POST when the IBM logo appears.
Although no message indicates that it is enabled, the device shows up in BIOS
and the operating system. See Figure 6-41, Figure 6-42 on page 375, and
Figure 6-43 on page 375.
If you boot the system, you can view the added USB devices in the BIOS. See
Figure 6-41.
Figure 6-41 Unhidden embedded USB device in BIOS
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