You can boot a terminal manually from the Boot Monitor prompt (>). This is useful if:

• There is no address determination protocol on the boot host
  

• You want to boot from a host other than the normal boot host
  

• You want to load a different X server from the one normally loaded by the terminal
  

• The terminal cannot locate an X server
  

You can invoke the Boot Monitor by pressing the Escape key while address requests are being broadcast to the network-before you see the word loaded. After you press the Escape key, the Boot Monitor prompt appears.

You can access the Boot Monitor after the X server is running by using a key combination, listed in Table 4-16. Accessing the Boot Monitor while clients are running, however, may cause unpredictable behavior.

Table 4-16 Boot Monitor Access Key Combinations

To load the server manually from a PCMCIA card, use the bl command:

> bl

To load the server manually using TFTP, use the bt command:

> bt [file] [ terminal_IP   host_IP ] [ gateway_IP ] [ subnet_mask ] ] 

To load the server manually using NFS, use the bn command:

> bn [file] [ terminal_IP   host_IP ] [ gateway_IP ] [ subnet_mask ] ] 

where:

file	Is the name of the server to load
terminal_IP	Is the IP address of the terminal
host_IP	Is the IP address of the boot host
gateway_IP	Is the IP address of the gateway
subnet_mask	Is the subnet mask, specified in decimal-dot format or as a hexadecimal number