Foundry Networks Switch and Router Installation And Configuration Manual page 166

Foundry Switch and Router Installation and Configuration Guide
Changing the Boot Source
To change the boot source for the POS module, use either of the following methods.
USING THE CLI
To change the boot source from the POS module's primary flash to its secondary flash, enter the following
commands:
BigIron(config)# pos boot secondary
BigIron(config)# write memory
Syntax: pos boot interactive | primary | secondary
The primary and secondary parameters identify either the primary or secondary flash on the POS module.
The interactive parameter enables you to enter a separate command after the module comes up to boot the
module from a TFTP server. If you use this method, you also need to use the pos boot tftp... command to boot
the module after the module comes up. See the following section.
Booting the Module from TFTP
To boot the POS module from a TFTP server, you must use the interactive boot method, then use the following
method to load the software after the module comes up.
USING THE CLI
To boot the POS module from a TFTP server, enter a command such as the following at the Privileged EXEC
level of the CLI:
BigIron# pos boot tftp 209.157.22.26 B2R06000
Syntax: pos boot tftp <tftp-server-ip-addr> <pos-image-file-name>
The <tftp-server-ip-addr> parameter specifies the IP address of the TFTP server.
The <pos-image-file-name> parameter lists the name of the image file you want the module to boot from the TFTP
server.
Copying a POS Image File from a Flash Card to a POS Module's Flash Memory
To copy a POS image file from a flash card to a POS module's flash memory, use the following method.
USING THE CLI
To copy a POS image file from a flash card onto all the POS modules in the chassis, enter a command such as
the following:
BigIron# pos copy slot1 flash P2R07000.bin primary
Syntax: pos copy slot1 | slot2 flash <pos-image-file-name> primary | secondary [slot]
The command in this example copies a POS image file named P2R07000.bin from the flash card in slot 1 to all the
POS modules in the chassis.
To copy a POS image file from a flash card onto a specific POS module, enter a command such as the following:
BigIron# pos copy slot1 P2R07000.bin flash primary 4
The command in this example copies the specified image file onto the POS module in chassis slot 4 only, but
does not copy the file to other POS modules in the chassis.
The following command copies a POS image file from a TFTP server to flash memory. This command also is
present in earlier software releases.
Syntax: pos copy tftp flash <ip-addr> <pos-image-file-name> primary | secondary [slot]
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