Niagra 804: Initial Bootup

Basic boot up via PXE

Get an IP address by DHCP

Request an IP address by typing dhcp:

Octeon cust_n804# dhcp
BOOTP broadcast 1
DHCP client bound to address 172.28.1.84
Octeon cust_n804#

Specify a TFTP server

Specify the TFTP server by setting the serverip environment variable:

Octeon cust_n804# setenv server ip 172.28.0.2

Identify the boot image to pull down

TFTP down the boot image file:

Octeon cust_n804# tftp 0 /images/im_niagra804/vmlinux_n804.bin
Using octmgmt0 device
TFTP from server 172.28.0.2; our IP address is 172.28.1.84
Filename '/images/im_niagra804/vmlinux_n804.bin'.
Load address: 0x20000000
Loading: #################################################
done
Bytes transferred = 33838432 (2045560 hex)

Boot the system

bootoctlinux 0 coremask=f #f = cores 0-3, 3ff = cores 0-9