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A P P E N D I X
B
Selecting a Boot Device
The boot device is specified by the setting of an OpenBoot configuration variable
called
boot-device
. The default setting of this variable is
disk net
. Because of
this setting, the firmware first attempts to boot from the system hard drive, and if
that fails, from the on-board NET0 Gigabit Ethernet interface.
This appendix includes the following topic:
■
Connecting the Network Interface to the Network
Connecting the Network Interface to the
Network
To boot from a network, you must connect the network interface to the network.
This procedure assumes that you are familiar with the OpenBoot firmware and that
you know how to enter the OpenBoot environment. For more information, see the
SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server Administration Guide
.
▼
To Connect the Network Interface to the
Network
●
At the
ok
prompt, type:
where the
device-specifier
is one of the following:
ok
setenv boot-device
device-specifier
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