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Booting a NETBuilder II Image over the Network 4-7
Procedure
To boot the NETBuilder II image over the network, follow these steps:
1 Turn on the NETBuilder II system or press the two outer buttons on the LCD panel on
the front of the chassis to reset the system.
2 Enter Y when the system asks if you want to enter the monitor.
3 From the NETBuilder monitor prompt (>), enter:
SF
The System Configuration menu is displayed.
4 Ensure that the System Configuration entry number 3, Start-Up Action, is set to Try
boot once.
If Start-Up Action is not set to Try boot once, follow these steps:
a From the System Configuration menu, enter 3.
The Start-Up Action menu is displayed.
b Enter 3 to select Try boot once and press the Return key.
The System Configuration menu showing the Start-Up Action as Try boot once
is displayed.
TFTP is a UDP-based function.Frames may be lost in transit. If this occurs, and the
Start-Up Action is not set to Try boot once, lost frames can cause the boot process
to continuously retry without success. Set the Start-Up Action to Try boot once to
avoid this situation.
5 From the System Configuration menu, enter 4 to select Primary Boot Source.
The Primary Boot Source menu is displayed.
6 Enter 1 to select the Boot Device option, and enter 2 to set the Boot Device to
Network.
You are then prompted to set the slot number and boot filename.
7 Enter the slot number of the module that is used to reach the TFTP server.
If you have a 4-Slot chassis, your options are 1 through 4. If you have an 8-Slot
chassis, your options are 1 through 8.
8 Enter the image filename by entering the directory path and the filename relative to
the tftpboot directory where the CEC boot image resides.
For example:
/image/NBII/SW/101/FF/boot.29k
You do not need to specify the /tftpboot directory because the TFTP server
assumes the /tftpboot directory by default.
9 Enter Q to return to the Primary Boot Source menu.
10 Enter 5 to select the Boot Protocol option, and set the Primary Boot Protocol to TFTP.
You are then prompted to set the TFTP Address Discovery Protocol.
11 Set the TFTP Address Discovery Protocol to Local Configured Addresses.
12 Enter Q to return to the Primary Boot Source menu.
13 Enter 6 to select IP Addresses, and enter the primary IP addresses assigned to the
TFTP client, TFTP server, gateway, remote file server, and subnet mask.