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:
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 Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server Administration Guide.
To Connect the Network Interface to the Network |
where the device-specifier is one of the following:
If you want to specify a network interface other than an on-board Ethernet interface as the default boot device, you can determine the full path name of each interface by typing:
The show-devs command lists the system devices and displays the full path name of each PCI device.
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