Troubleshooting
Dealing with a Boot Failure
Searching for Bootable Media
To list all devices that may contain bootable media, go
to the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and
then type the following at the prompt:
The search may turn up more devices than there are
lines on the display. If using a text terminal, control
the progress of the search from the terminal's key-
board by performing the following steps:
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•
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These flow-control commands do not work with a
bitmapped display, but such a display can show more
than forty lines of text, so they are unnecessary.
To search for devices of just one type that actually con-
tain bootable media, go to the Main Menu of the Boot
Console Interface and then type the following at the
prompt:
where device_type is one of the values listed in the fol-
lowing table:
Table 11
Bootable Device Types
C100/110
fwscsi
slotn.fwscsi
scsi
70
search ipl
To hold the display temporarily, press Ctrl S
To continue the display, press Ctrl Q
To halt the search, press Esc
search ipl device_type
C160l/160/180/
200/240/360
fwscsi
built-in FWD or UWSE SCSI bus
gscn
optional FWD SCSI bus
sescsi
built-in narrow SE SCSI bus
Description