Hardware

This procedure demonstrates how to easily use the "luxadm" command to set the "boot-device" Open Boot Prom (OBP) parameter from a system booted from cdrom or in single user mode. The command will change the "boot-device" setting at the OS level and at the same time, change the "boot-device" setting at the OBP level. This procedure enables the "boot-device" to easily be changed for systems with storage devices whose device paths are not one of the built-in OBP boot aliases (disk, disk1, … [Read more...] about How to set boot-device with luxadm command in Solaris

These aliases are created to simplify access to hardware devices at the OBP level. They can be used in place of the full OBP hardware path at the "ok" prompt. When viewed via the "devalias" command at the prom level, they are listed in the form of the alias name followed by the full hardware path to the device. There are 3 methods discussed in this post to create a boot device alias. Method 1: Creating a custom boot device alias using show-disks and nvalias from the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) … [Read more...] about How to create an OBP boot device alias in Solaris [SPARC]