To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
4.
Create an alias for the drive, as described in
“To Create an Alias for a Bootable
.
To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
After you have created a bootable drive, as described in
“To Create a Logical Drive With the
, you can create an alias for that drive. The alias helps to simplify
the process of booting the drive.
1.
Issue the
show-disks
command to list the disks on the system.
Note that, as shown in the following example, you can determine the HBA drives by looking for
the
LSI,mrsas@
number
label, where
number
is 0 for the first HBA detected, and increments for
each additional HBA detected.
{0} ok
show-disks
<...>
a) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/
LSI,mrsas@0
/disk
b) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/
LSI,mrsas@1
/disk
c) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/
LSI,mrsas@2
/disk
<...>
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit:
2.
Select the bootable drive for which you want to create an alias.
a) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@0/disk
b) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@1/disk
c) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk
<...>
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit:
c
/pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk has been selected.
3.
Use the
nvalias
alias-name
HBA-drive-path
command to create an alias for the
bootable drive that you selected in the previous step (you can press
Ctrl+Y
to
paste the device path).
In the following example, the alias name is
mydev
.
{0} ok
nvalias mydev /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk
4.
You can now boot from the bootable drive by using the
boot
alias-name
command.
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