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the hard-disk drive. You can set these values by using boot manager
commands.
This chapter describes the boot manager commands.
Variables
A number of variables are stored by the boot manager in nonvolatile memory.
You can set and view most variables from the boot manager prompt. The
following sections describe how to view and set the variables. The variables
are:
Table 6 Boot manager variables
Variable
Description
boot manager
revision
The version number of the boot manager. This variable
cannot be set from the command line.
autoboot
If autoboot is set to
no
, the IP300 Series appliance stops at
the boot manager command line during the boot process.
If autoboot is set to
yes
, the IP300 Series appliance does not
stop at the boot manager command line during a boot up. It
does wait for the amount of time specified in
bootwait
for
input from the keyboard. If input is received, the boot
manager goes to the command line; otherwise, it proceeds
with the boot up.
Factory default: yes.
bootwait
The amount of time, in seconds, that the boot manager waits
for input during a boot up when autoboot is set to
yes
.
Factory default: five seconds.
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