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C H A P T E R 7

System Start-Up and Operation

This chapter describes the system start-up and boot processes.

The chapter contains the following sections:

Starting the System

System Prompts

Starting the System

Use this procedure to start a system that has been powered down completely.

1. Connect and power on any peripheral devices, console or terminal, and external storage devices.

2. Press the ON switch on the front panel until the system starts to power up.

3. Wait for the system to boot or until the ok prompt is displayed.

Note - If the OBP auto-boot? variable is set to false, the system will boot only to the ok prompt. To complete the boot process, type boot at the ok prompt.

System Prompts

The following default system prompts are used by the Netra 20 system:

ok--OpenBoot PROM (OBP) prompt

lom>--Lights Out Management (LOMlite2) prompt

#--Solaris superuser prompt (Bourne and Korn shell)

FIGURE 7-1 shows the relationship between the three prompts and how to change from one to another.

FIGURE 7-1 System Prompt Flow Diagram