Selecting boot device order

You can view and change the customized boot list.

To minimize the search time for bootable devices, these menus follow this hierarchy:

device type -> bus type -> adapter -> devices attached to the adapter

By selecting List All Devices from the Select Device Type menu or the Select Media Type menu, you can view all of the potentially bootable devices at one time. Only bootable hard disks are listed.

The List All Devices function can take a long time on a large system with many I/O adapters and devices, such as large disk arrays.

Select the Select Boot Devices option to view and change the customized boot list, which is the sequence of devices read at startup.

 Configure Boot Device Order

 1.  Select 1st Boot Device
 2.  Select 2nd Boot Device
 3.  Select 3rd Boot Device
 4.  Select 4th Boot Device
 5.  Select 5th Boot Device
 6.  Display Current Setting
 7.  Restore Default Setting


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

When you select any of the options 1 - 5, the Select Device Type menu is displayed.

 Select Device Type

 1.  Diskette
 2.  Tape
 3.  CD/DVD
 4.  IDE
 5.  Hard Drive
 6.  Network
 7.  None
 8.  List All Devices


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

When you select a device type, such as option 5, a Select Media Type menu is displayed. The following is an example of that menu.

 Select Media Type

 1.  SCSI
 2.  SSA
 3.  SAN
 4.  SAS
 5.  SATA
 6.  USB
 7.  IDE
 8.  ISA
 9.  None
10.  List All Devices


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

When you select the media type, all adapters of that type are displayed on the Select Media Adapter menu. The following is an example of that menu for a SCSI media type.

Version EM310_024
SMS 1.6 (c)  Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2005 All rights reserved.
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Select Media Adapter

1.  Un-P1-T14 /pci@80000002000000d/pci@2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0
2.  Un-P1-T12 /pci@80000002000000f/pci@2,2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0
3.  Un-P1-T13 /pci@80000002000000f/pci@2,2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@1
4.  None
5.  List all devices


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

Then, you must select each adapter individually to see the bootable devices that are attached to it. If no bootable device is attached to the adapter, an error message is displayed. The following is an example of this menu for the first adapter in the previous example.

Version EM310_024
SMS 1.6 (c)  Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2005 All rights reserved.
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Select    Device
Device    Current    Device 
Number    Position   Name

1           1       SCSI 73407 MB Harddisk Un-P1-T14 /pci@80000002000000d/pci@2/
                     pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0
2.          None


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

When you select a device type, you can view detailed information about the device or set the device location in the boot list from the Select Task menu. (Note that only bootable disks are listed.) The following is an example of the menu for a hard disk.

 Select Task

SCSI 36401 MB Harddisk Un-P1-T14 /pci@80000002000000d/pci@2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0
 1.  Information
 2.  Set Boot Sequence: Configure as 1st Boot Device


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen           X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

Selecting Information displays a menu similar to the following for a hard disk.

 Device Information
    /pci@8000000200000dd/pci@2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@1/sd@5,0
                   :  (Bootable)
DEVICE             : SCSI 73407 MB Harddisk Un-P1-T14 /pci@80000002000000d/pci@2/
                     pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0
NAME               : sd
DEVICE-TYPE        : block

Parent Information
IBM,FW-ADAPTER-NAME: Ultra-320
NAME               : scsi
DEVICE-TYPE        : scsi-2


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen           X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

When you select the Configure Boot Device Order option, you can set the location of the device in the boot list.

Select the Display Current Settings to display the current setting of the customized boot list.

An example of this menu, with one device in the boot list, follows.

 Current Boot Sequence

1. SCSI 73407 MB Harddisk Un-P1-T14 /pci@80000002000000d/pci@2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0
2. None
3. None
4. None
5. None


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen              X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _

Select the Restore Default Settings option to restore the boot list to the default boot list.

The default boot list varies depending on the devices that are installed in the system. The default boot list is as follows:

Primary diskette drive (if installed)
Optical drive (if installed)
Tape drive (if installed)
Hard disk drive (if installed)
Network adapter