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Command Line Interface
If you issue a command with syntactic errors, an error message followed by the correct command
usage is displayed, as shown here:
MBM>set time
~CLI-W-(tCLImodem): invalid parameters
Usage: set time <date> <time>
MBM>
2.8 MBM Failsafe Loader
If the main MBM firmware image becomes corrupt, the failsafe loader allows the user to recover
the system. It also allows the user to load a network-bootable MBM image over the network if
configured to do so.
Upon application of VAUX, the failsafe loader is the first piece of firmware to run. It performs
power-up diagnostics on the MBM hardware, and then loads/runs the main image. If the main
image is missing or corrupt, the failsafe loader will attempt to automatically install the update from
the PMU server. If the automatic updating fails, the failsafe loader will sit and wait at the FSL CLI
prompt. (“FSL> “)
2.8.1 Configuration & Booting Images
From the FSL CLI, two commands are available that are not available in the main MBM firmware
image.
Bootline will configure the boot settings of MBM. Mbmboot will boot the MBM based on
the settings contained in the boot line. The bootline menu is shown below.
FSL> bootline
'.' = clear field; '-' = go to previous field; ^D = quit
boot device : flash0
processor number : 0
host name : host
file name : vxWorks
inet on ethernet (e) : 10.250.250.250
inet on backplane (b):
host inet (h) : 10.253.0.254
gateway inet (g) :
user (u) : target
ftp password (pw) (blank = use rsh):
flags (f) : 0xa0
target name (tn) :
startup script (s) :
other (o) : fei
The bootline options allow control over the name of the file to boot, the server to get the file from,
and startup flags. To boot an image over the network, change the boot device from flash to fei.
(Type “fei” and hit enter) To advance to the next option, hit enter without typing anything.
In practice, the only needed options are the boot device, the filename, the host inet (host to
download from). The other settings should be left to their default values.
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