3Com 6000 Series Installation Manual page 39

Boot Main Menu The following is prompted on the terminal screen after the system enters Boot
main system.
Press Ctrl+B to enter Boot Menu... 0
If you press <
Press <Ctrl+B> four seconds after startup to enter Boot main menu. Otherwise the
system will start host program in default mode.
The system will first prompt the following information for you to enter the
password. If the password is correct, the system shows the main menu. If you
enter an incorrect password for three times consecutively, the system restarts.
MAIN MENU
=====================<MAIN-BOOTROM MENU>=======================
| <1> Boot With Default Mode|
| <2> Boot From Flash|
| <3> Enter Serial SubMenu|
| <4> Enter Ethernet SubMenu|
| <5> Modify Bootrom Password|
| <6> Reboot
===============================================================
Enter your choice(1-7): _
If you use Flash for the first time and reading or writing Flash is required, Flash will
be formatted first. Then the following information will be prompted:
Formatting Flash, please waiting several minutes...done
Starting host program in default mode
Enter <1> in Boot main menu and the system will first read Flash description area
to get start flag (from Flash or from hardware disk) and start file names. Then it
downloads host program files to memory as per start flag and start file names. The
system decompresses and starts the files, and the terminal will display:
Boot With Default Mode
Booting From Flash...
The Boot File is < flash:/6080.bin >
The Router 6000 only supports starting Boot main menu from Flash.
Starting application program from Flash
Enter <2> in Boot main menu and the system will first read Flash description area
to get Flash start file names. Then it downloads host program files to memory as
per start file names. The system decompresses and starts the files. The following
information is prompted on the terminal screen:
Copyright(C) 2001-2004 by 3Com Corporation CO.
Creation date: Jul 14 2003, 10:54:22
CPU type : IBM750FX-DD2.2
CPU L2 Cache : 512KB
CPU Clock Speed : 625MHz
BUS Clock Speed : 125MHz
Memory Size : 256MB
> at this time, the system will enter Boot main menu.
Ctrl+B
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