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15 Aug 19 Turning of hardware test at boot on BL class Itanium blades

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BOOTTEST Settings Default Variable OS is not speedy boot aware. Selftest Setting

——— ————–

early_cpu Run this test

late_cpu Run this test

platform Run this test

chipset Run this test

io_hw Run this test

mem_init Run this test

mem_test Run this test

BOOTTEST Settings Default Variable OS is not speedy boot aware. Selftest Setting

Shell> boottest

Shell> boottest mem_test off

Shell> boottest mem_init off

Shell> boottest io_hw off

Shell> boottest chipset off

Shell> boottest platform off

Shell> boottest late_cpu off

Shell> boottest early_cpu off

BOOTTEST Settings Default Variable OS is not speedy boot aware. Selftest Setting

——— ————–

early_cpu Skip this test

late_cpu Skip this test

platform Skip this test

chipset Skip this test

io_hw Skip this test

mem_init     Skip this test

mem_test Skip this test

Skip this test Shell>

This cuts boot time over 90%. NOTE: YHou may need to turn this stuff back on to troubleshoot hardware issues.

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