boot Command Changes

The SunOS release 5.6 software has these additional options for the boot command:

• Type boot -r when you add new hardware or alter its location. This option creates the physical and logical device names, with the logical device name linked to the physical device name.

• Type boot -v when you want to see all the system bootup messages; the default is to boot silently. The messages are always stored in the /var/adm/messages file.

• Type boot -a when you want to be prompted for the name of an alternate kernel, /etc/system file, or path name for kernel module directories.