Command Line Switches for SERVER.EXE

(Last modified: 24Sep2004)

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Command Line Switches for SERVER.EXE

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Novell NetWare 5.x

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The following command-line switches for SERVER.EXE control the Load Stage processing during server startup:

SERVER -#<loadstage_number>

You can use the switches to process up to the specified load stage. For example,

SERVER -#a-b
has "a" and "b" as the numbers of the loadstages, which tells SERVER.EXE to process load stages a to b only. As another exemple,

SERVER -#2-4
tells SERVER.EXE to process only loadstages 2, 3 and 4. The command-line switches can also be used to skip a loadstage. For instance,

SERVER -#!a
designates "a" as the loadstage number. So the above command says "do not process stage A--skip it." Similarly,

SERVER -#!2-4
tells SERVER.EXE to not process loadstages 2, 3 and 4.

Here are some other command-line switches for SERVER.EXE that can be useful in troubleshooting server startup problems.

SERVER -D
Break into Debugger at startup.

SERVER -NDB
Do not open NDS DIB, just load DS.NLM.

SERVER -B <filename>
Specifies which DS.NLM filename to use.

SERVER -NS
Do not process the STARTUP.NCF file.

SERVER -NA
Do not process the AUTOEXEC.NCF file.

SERVER -SI
Disable real mode sharing of interrupts.

SERVER -V
Turn on System Verbose information.

Some of these are only implemented in NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 3 and above.

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Document Title:	Command Line Switches for SERVER.EXE
Document ID:	10069810
Solution ID:	NOVL76044
Creation Date:	05Apr2002
Modified Date:	24Sep2004
Novell Product Class:	NetWare

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