Powering And Booting An Altix 350 System From A Serial Terminal; Powering And Booting From An L1 System Controller - Silicon Graphics Altix 350 Quick Start Manual

Powering and Booting an Altix 350 System from a Serial Terminal

Powering and Booting From an L1 System Controller

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The power up procedure varies, depending on whether your serial terminal is connected directly
to an L1 system controller or the optional L2 system controller. Refer to the appropriate section
below.
Use the following steps to connect your Altix 350 system via serial cable to the L1 controller (see
Figure 1-5):
1. Attach a serial cable to the lowest compute node in the system using the following:
• Serial DB9 Female to Female cable P/N 018-0691-001
• The settings for the L1 serial port are as follows:
Baud rate 38400
8 data bits
1 stop bit
No parity
RTS/CTS flow control (hardware flow control)
2. Attach the other end of the cable to a PC serial port with "cu" or other similar terminal
emulation program.
3. On the PC enter the following command.
cu -l ttyS0 -s 38400
This assumes the tty device on the PC is ttyS0.
There should be a "connected" response.
Hit return again and you should get a L1 prompt:
001c01-L1>
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