Setting The Main And Backup Host Software Through The Boot Menu - 3Com S7906E Getting Started Manual

After the system reboots, you need to change the baud rate of the HyperTerminal back to 9600 bps as
described in Steps 5 and 6. You need not to change the baud rate if you have chosen 9600 bps for
download.

Setting the Main and Backup Host Software Through the Boot Menu

The S7900E series support dual image booting. Usually the switch boots with the main image (namely,
the main boot file), but uses the backup image (namely, the backup boot file) when the main image is in
error.
For the setting of the main and backup host software through command lines, refer to section
main and backup boot
the boot menu.
1) Enter the boot menu.
BOOT
1. Download application file to device
2. Select application file to boot
3. Display all files in device
4. Delete file from device
5. Modify bootrom password
0. Reboot
Enter your choice(0-5): 2
Select 2 and press Enter.
File Number File Size(bytes)
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7(*).
8(-).
Flash Free Space : 21444608 bytes
The current application file is :SWITCH000.app
The backup application file is : SWITCH100.app
The system displays all files on the Flash, wherein the file number with an asterisk (*) is the main boot
file and the one with a hyphen (-) is the backup boot file.
2) Re-configure the main and backup boot files.
Set the main boot file.
Enter the sequence number of the desired main boot file when the terminal displays the following
information:
files." on page 6-17. The following introduces the setting of dual image through
MENU
File Name
4 snmpboots
1972 SWITCH100.cfg
1012 taskswitch.log
631736 Btm105.app
199696 8241btm.app
6048565 SWITCH200.app
5639172 SWITCH000.app
203460 SWITCH100.app
6-11
"Set the