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MAX Administration Guide
Administering MAX Hardware
Booting from a FAT-formatted PCMCIA card
Loading the software on the PCMCIA card
Use TFTP to load the TAOS executable file and the handler file on the PCMCIA card. When
you load software using the MAX 6000 unit’s TFTP functionality, the unit saves its
configuration during the process.
Note:
Your Security profile must permit use of Diagnostics mode or you must log in with the
Full Access profile.
To place software on the PC card, proceed as follows:
1
Enter Diagnostics mode by pressing Ctrl-D to display the DO menu and selecting D for
Diagnostics.
The
>
prompt appears.
2
Format the PC card for booting the MAX 6000 unit by entering the following command:
> format -b
The
-b
option reserves space for the handler file.
3
The FAT file system now includes a location for the handler file, which contains a routine
that later invokes the TAOS executable file.
To load the handler software from your TFTP server directory enter the following
command:
> tloadcode -b
tftp-server-IPadr
m60handler.bin
where
–
-b
specifies that the
tloadcode
command load the software into the space
reserved for the handler file on the PC card.
–
tftp-server-IPadr
is the IP address of the TFTP server on which you have
loaded the unit’s binary files.
–
m60handler.bin
is the name of the handler file.
4
Create a boot directory named Current as follows:
> mkdir /current
5
Load a TAOS executable file for the unit into the boot directory as follows:
> fload
tftp-server-IPadr
TAOSfilem60.bin
where
–
tftp-server-IPadr
is the IP address of the TFTP server on which you have
stored the MAX 6000 binary file.
–
TAOSfilem60.bin
is the name of the executable file for the MAX 6000 unit when
loaded on the PC card. The name may be as long as 64 characters, but the filename
extension must be .
bin
and the file must be put into the default
/current
directory, as in the example.
To boot the unit from the TAOS executable file stored on the PC card, enter the Reset
command to disconnect all active connections and restart the unit:
> reset
This completes the process of loading the software on the PC card.