User guide

System Control Overview
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Monitoring Power On
Open a separate window on your PC or workstation and establish another connection to the SMN
or CMC and use the uvcon command to open a system console and monitor the system boot
process. Use the following steps:
CMC:r1i1c> uvcon
uvcon: attempting connection to localhost...
uvcon: connection to SMN/CMC (localhost) established.
uvcon: requesting baseio console access at r001i01b00...
uvcon: tty mode enabled, use ’CTRL-]’ ’q’ to exit
uvcon: console access established
uvcon: CMC <--> BASEIO connection active
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******* START OF CACHED CONSOLE OUTPUT *******
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******** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b10: Cold Reset via NL
broadcast reset
******** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b07: Cold Reset via NL
broadcast reset
******** [20100512.143540] BMC r001i01b08: Cold Reset via NL
broadcast reset
******** [20100512.143540] BMC r001i01b12: Cold Reset via NL
broadcast reset
******** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b14: Cold Reset via NL
broadcast reset
******** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b04: Cold Reset via NL....
Note: Use CTRL-] q to exit the console.
Depending upon the size of your system, it can take 5 to 10 minutes for the UV system to boot to
the EFI shell. When the shell> prompt appears, enter fs0:, as follows:
shell> fs0:
At the fs0: prompt, enter the Linux boot loader information, as follows:
fs0:\> \efi\SuSE\elilo
The ELILO Linux Boot loader is called and various SGI configuration scripts are run and the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack x installation program appears.