Acme Packet: How to Format /boot dir

Asset ID:	1-71-1597484.1
Update Date:	2018-01-04
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Solution Type Technical Instruction Sure

Solution 1597484.1 : Acme Packet: How to Format /boot dir

Applies to:

Net-Net 4250 - Version C5.x.x and later
Acme Packet OS

Goal

How to format /boot dir.

Solution

In the rare instance of an Session Director (SD) failing to correctly boot, for example failing to extrace a software image, it may be necessary to format the boot partition.

Here is the procedure to do so, starting by interrupting the boot process.

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/code synced and unmounted
/boot synced and unmounted

Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director II
Creation date: Feb 8 2006, 21:47:25

Initializing system memory........ done.

Press the space bar to stop auto-boot... <-----------PRESS SPACEBAR

[Acme Packet Boot]: c <-----------TYPE 'C' TO CHANGE BOOTPARAMS

'.' = clear field; '-' = go to previous field; ^D = quit

boot device : wancom0
processor number : 0
host name : topgun
file name : sd414p5.gz
inet on ethernet (e) : 172.30.20.100:ffff0000
inet on backplane (b):
host inet (h) : 172.30.0.125
gateway inet (g) : 172.30.0.1
user (u) : vxftp
ftp password (pw) (blank = use rsh): vxftp
flags (f) : 0x8 0x40000008 <-----------CHANGE BOOT FLAG to 0x40000008
target name (tn) : TAC-SD-100
startup script (s) :
other (o) :

[Acme Packet Boot]:
[Acme Packet Boot]: @ <-----------TYPE '@' TO EXECUTE BOOTPARAMS

boot device : wancom
unit number : 0
processor number : 0
host name : topgun
file name : sd414p5.gz
inet on ethernet (e) : 172.30.20.100:ffff0000
host inet (h) : 172.30.0.125
gateway inet (g) : 172.30.0.1
user (u) : vxftp
ftp password (pw) : vxftp
flags (f) : 0x40000008
target name (tn) : TAC-SD-100

Attached TCP/IP interface to wancom0.
Attaching interface lo0...done
Reading sd414p5.gz - 10077712 bytes read.
Decompressing image... 30763696 bytes uncompressed.
0x017deb50 + 0x00294670 + (0x002c4820) + 0x00000148
Starting at 0x10000...

Clearing memory... done.

Watchdog timer started
Attached TCP/IP interface to wancom unit 0
Attaching interface lo0...done

Adding 50288 symbols in vxKernel domain.

Starting the application...

boot flags: 0x40000008
TFFS mounting /boot ...
/boot mounted
TFFS mounting /code ...
/code mounted
Source based routing is disabled.

/ramdrv is default dir

Session Director is not using HW accelerator

Acme startup bypassed - type 'acmeSysStartup' to start the system

Password: flatspin <-----------TYPE 'flatspin' AS THE PASSWORD
[vxKernel] ->
[vxKernel] -> sysTffsBootFormat <-----------TYPE THIS 'sysTffsBootFormat' COMMAND
value = 0 = 0x0
[vxKernel] -> reboot <-----------TYPE 'reboot' TO REBOOT
Wathchdog timer stopped

/code synced and unmounted
/boot synced and unmounted

Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director II
Creation date: Feb 8 2006, 21:47:25

Initializing system memory........ done.

Press the space bar to stop auto-boot... <-----------PRESS SPACEBAR

[Acme Packet Boot]: c <-----------TYPE 'C' TO CHANGE BOOTPARAMS

'.' = clear field; '-' = go to previous field; ^D = quit

boot device : wancom0
processor number : 0
host name : topgun
file name : sd414p5.gz
inet on ethernet (e) : 172.30.20.100:ffff0000
inet on backplane (b):
host inet (h) : 172.30.0.125
gateway inet (g) : 172.30.0.1
user (u) : vxftp
ftp password (pw) (blank = use rsh): vxftp
flags (f) : 0x40000008 0x8 <-----------CHANGE BOOT FLAG BACK TO 0x8
target name (tn) : TAC-SD-100
startup script (s) :
other (o) :

[Acme Packet Boot]:
[Acme Packet Boot]:
[Acme Packet Boot]: @ <-----------TYPE '@' TO EXECUTE BOOTPARAMS

Attached TCP/IP interface to wancom0.
Attaching interface lo0...done

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