Powering On And Configuring The Server - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V60x Manual

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C H A P T E R
Powering On and Configuring the
Server
This chapter explains how to use the Power On switch to apply power to the server,
boot to the operating system, use the serial console, update system software, and
validate the operation of the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers. The chapter
contains these sections:
"Jumper Locations" on page 4-2
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"Setting the Serial COM2 Port Jumper" on page 4-4
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"Powering On" on page 4-5
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"Clearing CMOS" on page 4-6
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"Booting Up" on page 4-8
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"Loading the Operating System" on page 4-16
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"Hyper-threading
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"Configuring an External Serial Console" on page 4-17
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"Fault Resilient Booting (FRB)" on page 4-19
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"Using the Service Partition Menu" on page 4-24
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"Using the Sun Diagnostics CD" on page 4-45
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"Updating the Server Configuration" on page 4-50
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"Restarting and Shutting Down" on page 4-55
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TM
CPU Feature" on page 4-16
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