To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

After you have created a bootable drive, as described in To Create a Logical Drive With the pcli Utility , you can create an alias for that drive. The alias helps to simplify the process of booting the drive.

Issue the show-disks command to list the disks on the system.
Note that, as shown in the following example, you can determine the HBA drives by looking for the LSI,mrsas@ number label, where number is 0 for the first HBA detected, and increments for each additional HBA detected.
```
{0} ok show-disks
<...>
a) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@0/disk
b) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@1/disk
c) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk
<...>
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit:
```

Select the bootable drive for which you want to create an alias.

a) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@0/disk
b) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@1/disk
c) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk
<...>
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit: c
/pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk has been selected.

Use the nvalias alias-name HBA-drive-path command to create an alias for the bootable drive that you selected in the previous step (you can press Ctrl+Y to paste the device path).
In the following example, the alias name is mydev.
```
{0} ok nvalias mydev /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,mrsas@2/disk
               
```
You can now boot from the bootable drive by using the boot alias-name command.
```
{0} ok boot mydev
               
```
To optionally add the bootable 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,mrsas@2/disk.
Validate the label of the bootable drive that you created (see Validating the Label of the HBA Logical Drive).