Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

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.

To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

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 (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.

   {0} ok boot mydev
   

5. To optionally add the bootable drive to the boot-device list and then automatically boot from the drive by controlling the boot device order, issue the following commands, as shown.

   {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.

6. Validate the label of the bootable drive that you created (see Validating the Label of the HBA Logical Drive).