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Using the Nokia IPSO Boot Manager
Other Commands
This section describes the halt and help commands you can use with the boot
manager.
halt
Use the halt command to halt the system. The command has the following
syntax:
halt
help
Use the help command to display a list of the available commands. The
command has the following syntax:
help
Booting the System
The boot command lets you boot up the Nokia IPSO operating system. The
command allows you to set the boot device, boot file, and boot flags from the
command line.
The command has the following syntax:
boot boot-device boot-file boot-flags
where boot-device is the storage device from which the operating system
loads at boot up, and boot-file is the operating system kernel. The boot-flags
control the operation of the command.
For example, at the boot-manager command prompt, enter the following:
BOOTMGR[0]> boot wd0 /image/current/mykernel -vd
This command boots mykernel from device wd0 in verbose and debug mode.
You can supply all, any, or none of the arguments. If you do not supply an
argument, the boot manager uses the default. It first searches its non-volatile
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Nokia EM5400 IP Security Platform (IP260 and IP265 Appliances) Installation Guide
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