Using the OBP Environment to Set Up a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

This section describes how to use the OBP environment to select a drive that you can use as your boot drive upon which to install the Oracle Solaris OS. This section contains the following topic:

• To Prepare to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Prepare to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

1. At an xterm or gnome terminal window, enter the OBP environment by doing one of the following:
   • Press STOP+A on a Sun keyboard.
   • Issue a break from a remote console.
2. Use the show-devs command to list the device paths on the system and select the device path for the HBA.

   The mpt_sas-based controllers will end with LSI,sas@number.

    {0} ok show-devs
   <...>
   /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0
    /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0/disk
    /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@1
   <...>
   

3. Use the select command to select the HBA card.

   {0} ok select /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0

4. If you were able to determine and select the card that you wanted in the previous step, skip to . Otherwise, if more than one of the mpt_sas-based cards is displayed in the show-devs output, use the select and .properties commands to determine which card you want and then select that card.

   {0} ok select /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0
   {0} ok .properties
   …
   subsystem-id             000030b0
   

   The external facing cards contain a subsystem-ID of 000030b0. To further specify the card, you can also display the SAS addresses of any connected drives by using the show-children command.

5. Go to Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC).