The following steps describes how to run diagnostic tests
on a local system using the Preboot Dynamic System Analysis GUI, the Preboot
Edition command-line interface, and Dynamic System Analysis on removable media.
Select a diagnostic option and complete the steps for
that option.
- Preboot Edition GUI
- Boot to the Dynamic System Analysis,
either by booting to removable media or, for preinstalled Dynamic System Analysis, pressing F2 to
interrupt the boot sequence.
- Select Quit to DSA to exit the standalone
memory diagnostic program.
Note: After you exit the standalone memory
diagnostic environment, you must restart the system before you can
access this environment again.
- Enter gui or select Click here to
start diagnostics (GUI) to launch the Dynamic System Analysis graphical environment.
- Click I Accept to accept the Preboot license.
- Click Customized Inventory Collection and Diagnosis.
- Select the desired Diagnostic items.
- Click the cell in the Test Loop column
to set loop counts for each individual test.
- Click OK to start Diagnostics.
- When the Diagnostics are finished, to display the Diagnostic details,
click the button located under Diagnostic Tests in the navigation
pane on the left.
- Preboot Edition CLI
- Boot to the Dynamic System Analysis,
either by booting to removable media or, for preinstalled Dynamic System Analysis, pressing F2 to
interrupt the boot sequence.
- Enter cmd or select Click here to
start diagnostics (CLI) to launch the Dynamic System Analysis command environment.
- From the menu to enter the interactive diagnostics environment,
select Diagnostics. The options in this environment
are:
- Execute Diagnostic Tests
- Executes the selected
tests.
- Get Diagnostic Extended Results
- Displays the
extended results of diagnostics tests that have already run.
- When the tests are complete, enter :x to exit
the menu.
- Select the completed tests to view the results.
- Dynamic System Analysis on
removable media
- Insert the media into the system, and if necessary, mount the
removable media.
- From a command line, change to the directory for the removable
media.
- Enter the following command to collect system information:
lnvgy_utl_dsa_dsa_dsalxxx-10.x__portable_plaform -diags
where the platform is the supported Linux distribution.