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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 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 Netra T5440 Server Administration Guide.
Note - The serial management port on the ILOM card is preconfigured as the default system console port. For more information, see the Sun Netra T5440 Server Overview. |
If you want to boot from a network, you must connect the network interface to the network.
ok setenv boot-device device-specifier |
where the device-specifier is one of the following:
disk – Specifies the system boot disk (internal disk 0 by default)
net, net0, net1, net2, net3 – Specifies the network interfaces
full path name – Specifies the device or network interface by its full path name
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 either of the following commands:
ok show-devs ok show-nets |
The show-devs command lists the system devices and displays the full path name of each PCI device.
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