7210 SAS-M, T, R6, R12, Mxp, Sx, S Basic System
Configuration Guide
Boot Options
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Table 22 7210 SAS-Sx/S 1/10GE, 7210 SAS-Sx 10/100GE, and 7210 SAS-Mxp Boot Loader
Actions for chassis-role and host-type Parameters
Boot Parameter:
chassis-role
BOF Parameter:
host-type
Boot Loader Action
factory-default satellites • The user sets chassis-role to satellite.
• The system boots up successfully in satellite mode.
• On subsequent reboots, the system will continue to boot up in
satellite mode.
standalone • The user sets chassis-role to standalone.
• The system boots up successfully in standalone mode.
• On subsequent reboots, the system will continue to boot up in
standalone mode.
none
(host-type is not set
to any value
explicitly)
•The chassis-role value is unchanged from factory-default.
• The system boots up successfully in standalone mode.
• On subsequent reboots, the system will continue to boot up in
standalone mode, if the value of host-type is not set explicitly
(that is, it is set to none).
standalone standalone •The chassis-role value is unchanged from standalone.
• The system boots up successfully in standalone mode.
• On subsequent reboots, the system will continue to boot up in
standalone mode.
satellites The boot loader detects a mismatch and returns an error. Depending
on the context of the boot loader, it will take one of the following
actions.
• If the boot loader is in auto-init, it will retry auto-init to fetch a new
BOF with the correct value for host-type.
• If the boot loader was interrupted to configure the BOF
parameters manually, it will go back to provide an option for the
user to change the value of host-type to the correct value.
none • The value of chassis-role is unchanged from standalone.
• The system boots up successfully in standalone mode.
• On subsequent reboots, the system will continue to boot up in
standalone mode if the host-type value is not set explicitly (that
is, the value is set to none).