Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

This section describes how to create an alias for the drive that you selected in the previous section. This section contains the following topic:

• To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

1. Use the nvalias alias-name HBA-drive-path/disk command to create an alias for the drive that you selected in (you can press Ctrl+Y to paste the device path).

   Creating an alias for the drive helps simplify the process of booting the drive later. In the following example, the alias name is mydev.

   {0} ok nvalias mydev /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0/disk
   

2. You can now boot from the drive by using the boot alias-name command.

   {0} ok boot mydev
   

3. To optionally add the 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,sas@0/disk.