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Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA, External

Installation Guide For HBA Models SGX-SAS6-EXT-Z and SG-SAS6-EXT-Z

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Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 HBA Overview

Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Removal

Chapter 3 Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment

Overview of Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment

Creating a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

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

To Prepare to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

Next Steps

Creating a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Create a Bootable Drive (x86)

Using the BIOS Configuration Utility to Set Up a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Prepare to Use the BIOS Configuration Utility

Selecting a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)

Next Steps

Validating the Oracle Solaris Labels of the HBA Drives

To Verify That the Oracle Solaris Label of a Drive is Valid

Next Steps

Installing the Oracle Solaris OS

To Prepare to Install the Oracle Solaris OS

To Install the Oracle Solaris OS

Next Steps

Chapter 4 HBA Software Installation

Chapter 5 Known Issues

Appendix A HBA Specifications

Glossary

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)

  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.