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8 B OOT FROM A FTP S ERVER
8.1 B OOT FROM NETWORK
The A8 may be booted from a firmware image located on a remote FTP server. This also
provides an alternative method to boot the A8 if there is no available firmware inside the A8.
1. Store the new firmware image in the FTP Server. The name of the new firmware should
be B4.img.
2. Create a user in the FTP server. Please refer to section 10 if you are not familiar with
how to configure a user account on the FTP server.
3. Connect the FTP server and A8 onto the network; check the connection from the FTP
server to the A8 using a ping command (or similar).
4. From the A8 CLI (connected through console), reboot the A8. Press any key to stop the
reboot when you see the command “Press any key to stop auto-boot…” in the
CLI window. The A8 will go to the BootROM state, as shown in Figure 30.
5. Type “c” to change the settings in the BootROM, as shown in “bold” letter:
- boot device : ixe
- unit number : 0
- processor number : 0
- host name : host
- file name : B4.img
- inet on Ethernet (e) : <your A8 ip address>
- host inet (h) : <your ftp server ip address>
- gateway inet (g) : <gateway ip address>
- user (u) : <your ftp username>
- ftp password (pw) : <your ftp password>
- flags (f) : 0x0
- other (o) :
- startup script : factory
6. Type “p” to check if the settings are correct, as shown in Figure 31.
1. And then, type “@” to reboot the A8 from the BootROM.
2. Check the current firmware version with the command version in the CLI. You may
also check the memory and file size in the flash memory with the command ls in the
CLI.
A TTENTION :
Booting from the network will not download any firmware to the local flash device inside the
A8. If you want to boot with the same firmware without booting from network, you must first
download the firmware to the A8 Flash memory. Please refer section 4.1 for the details.