I can offer this:
At the "ok" prompt, you can issue the command:
setenv floppy-boot? true
This will read the current image off the hard drive, Read Disk labels, Spin-up disks if necessary and configure disks.
Remember, this is reading the image from the harddisk. If you need a special release or something like that, and it has not been put to disk with the filer's "download" command you will still need a set of floppy disks to boot from.
At this point somewhere on the screen you will see floppy-boot? and the LCD sceen should say "waiting for user input"
Simply press y or n followed by a return:
n - boot normally
y - will display the 1 thru 5 boot menu and give whatever access you would have from floppy
WARNING: do not forget to issue one of the following at the "ok" prompt after you are done tinkering:
setenv floppy-boot? false OR unsetenv floppy-boot?
Failure to do so will result in the filer waiting for user input on every reboot.
I usually will do one extra reboot, just to clear this variable.
--tmac
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