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Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA, Internal Installation Guide For HBA Models SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z and SG-SAS6-R-INT-Z |
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Removal
Chapter 3 Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment
Overview of Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment
Methods For Creating a Bootable Drive
Creating a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
To Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
Using the pcli Utility to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
To Prepare to Use the pcli Utility
To Create a Logical Drive With the pcli Utility
Importing an Existing Logical Drive Configuration (SPARC)
To Import an Existing Logical Drive Configuration From a Different Controller (SPARC)
Creating a Bootable Drive (x86)
To Create a Bootable Drive (x86)
Using the Configuration Options Menu to Create a Bootable Logical Drive (x86)
To Verify the Drives and Their Slots (x86)
To Create a Logical Drive (x86)
To Confirm the Logical Drive Creation (x86)
Using the pcli Utility to Create a Bootable Drive (x86)
To Create a Logical Drive With the pcli Utility (x86)
Importing an Existing Logical Drive Configuration (x86)
To Import an Existing Logical Drive Configuration Using the Configuration Options Menu (x86)
To Import an Existing Logical Drive Configuration in Legacy Booting Mode (x86)
To Boot an x86 Server From an External Disk Drive
Validating the Label of the HBA Logical Drive
To Verify That the Label of a Logical Drive Is Valid
Installing the Oracle Solaris OS
To Prepare to Install the Oracle Solaris OS
To Install the Oracle Solaris OS
After you have created or imported a bootable drive, as described in Using the pcli Utility to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC) or Importing an Existing Logical Drive Configuration (SPARC), you can create an alias for that drive. The alias helps to simplify the process of booting the drive.
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:
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.
In the following example, the alias name is mydev.
{0} ok nvalias mydev /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk
{0} ok boot mydev
{0} ok printenv boot-device boot-device = disk0 disk1 {0} ok setenv boot-device mydev disk0 boot-device = mydev disk0
In this example, the mydev alias is set as disk0, the first disk in the boot device list. This results in the automatic booting of the bootable drive, /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk.