Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V480, Administration Manual

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168 Sun Fire V480 Server Administration Guide • February 2002
Note –
To store parameter changes, you can also power cycle the system using the
front panel Power button.
What Next
You can now issue commands and view system messages on the local console.
How to Unconfigure a Device Manually
To support a degraded boot capability, the OpenBoot firmware provides the
asr-disable
command, which enables you to unconfigure system devices
manually. This command “marks” a specified device as disabled , by creating an
appropriate “status” property in the corresponding device tree node. By convention,
the Solaris operating environment will not activate a driver for any device so
marked.
What to Do
1. At the system
ok
prompt, type:
where the device-identifier is one of the following:
■
Any full physical device path as reported by the OpenBoot
show-devs
command
■
Any valid device alias as reported by the OpenBoot
devalias
command
■
Any device identifier from the following table
ok asr-disable
device-identifier