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Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Administration Guide
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Chapter 1 Setting Up the ACE
Modifying the Boot Configuration
Modifying the Boot Configuration
You can control how the ACE performs its boot process. You can instruct the ACE
to automatically boot the system image identified in the BOOT environment
variable or you can manually identify the system boot image to use. In addition,
you can choose to have the ACE load the startup-configuration file or ignore the
startup-configuration file upon reboot.
This section describes how to modify the boot configuration of the ACE. It
contains the following procedures:
•
Setting the Boot Method from the Configuration Register
•
Setting the BOOT Environment Variable
•
Configuring the ACE to Bypass the Startup Configuration File During the
Boot Process
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Displaying the ACE Boot Configuration
Setting the Boot Method from the Configuration Register
The configuration register can be used to modify how the ACE performs its boot
process, automatically or manually.
You can modify the boot method that the ACE uses at the next startup by setting
the boot field in the software configuration register. The configuration register
identifies how the ACE should boot.
To specify the configuration register boot setting, use the
config-register
configuration command. This command affects only the configuration register
bits that control the boot field and leaves the remaining bits unaltered.
The syntax for the command is as follows:
config-register
value
The supported
value
entries are as follows:
•
0x0
—Upon reboot, the ACE boots to the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
(GRUB). From the GRUB boot loader, you specify the system boot image to
use to boot the ACE. Upon startup, the ACE loads the startup-configuration
file stored in the Flash memory (nonvolatile memory) to the
running-configuration file stored in RAM (volatile memory).