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Please note: Commands can be entered by typing the full command or the abbreviation indicated by the uppercase letters. The commands can must be entered in lowercase or uppercase letters.

There is an overlap between menus, as shown by the configuration menu (type co or more letters of the command) below:

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Important commands in the main menu:

CommandDescription

BOOT PRIboot pri

Boot from the primary boot device.
BOOT ALTboot alt
Boot from the alternative boot device.
BOOT boot deviceBoot from device with specified device path. Example device path: 0/0/1/0.0.0
PATH PRIpath priDisplay primary boot path.
PATH ALTpath altDisplay alternative boot path.
PATH path <PRI pri | ALT alt> pathSet the boot path. If neither PRI nor ALT is specified, the primary path will be set.
SEARCHsearchSearch for boot devices
lif path lifimage

Boot a lif file.

This parameter is currently

There are currently two use cases:

  • When used to boot a single image, it is mostly used for testing. Use only as advised by Stromasys. The path parameter is a SCSI device path for 64-bit systems, on a 32-bit system it can be the device path of a network card or a SCSI device path. The lifimage parameter contains the path of the bootable lif file (absolute path or path relative to the directory in which the emulator runs).
RESET
  • Used to emulate booting a system from a Ignite-UX server (for example, to install the operating system). In this case, the content of the TFTP boot directory is downloaded from the Ignite server to a path accessible by the emulator. The feature is planned for version 3.0.9. Please refer to Installing a client system from an Ignite-UX server for more information.
resetRestart the system.


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Important commands only available in the configuration menu:

CommandDescription
AUTOautoDisplay the autoboot settings.
AUTO BOOT ON | OFFauto boot on | off Enable or disable system autoboot.
BOOTINFObootinfo

Displays a summary of boot parameter and paths as shown below:

DEFAULTdefaultReset the parameter values to the predefined settings.

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  1. Start the Charon instance.
  2. At the PDC menu, enter BOOT PRI to boot pri to boot from the main path.
  3. At the prompt Interact with IPL (Y or N)? >, enter Y.
  4. At the ISL> prompt, enter the command ODE.
  5. At the ODE> prompt, enter RUN MAPPER2.

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