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3 disk boot, 1 prerequisites, 2 booting procedure – Artesyn MVME2500 VxWorks 6.8 AMP User Guide (August 2014) User Manual

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Booting VxWorks

MVME2500 VxWorks 6.8 AMP User Guide (6806800M27B)

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Example: tip "dev=/ttyMsd0#tag=green". For more information refer the
tip utility documentation.

For sample output of Vxworks booting on Core 1 through network , refer

Appendix

A, VxWorks Booting on Core 1

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2.3

Disk Boot

2.3.1

Prerequisites

You should have:

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk with ext2 file system loaded,
and VxWorks image loaded to the ext2 file system

2.3.2

Booting Procedure

To boot VxWorks AMP using disk, perform the following steps:

1. Power up the MVME2500 board.

By default, it provides the U-Boot prompt.

2. Set the environmental variables at the U-Boot prompt.

setenv ipaddr

setenv serverip

setenv gatewayip

setenv netmask

Example:
setenv ipaddr 10.130.101.206

setenv serverip 10.130.101.216

setenv gatewayip 10.130.101.254

setenv netmask 255.255.255.0

3. Set the VxWorks boot image file name.

setenv vxbootfile

vxWorks_00.st