Alternate Boot Disks on SPARC Systems

The primary disk in a mirrored root pool is typically the default boot device. To boot from a different device, you must specify that disk when issuing the command to boot.

If you want to change the default boot device, first display the pool's configuration to select the device you want. Then, at the OK prompt, update the system's PROM with the selected device. Boot the system and confirm that your selected device is the active boot device.

The following example assigns c1t1d0 as the default boot device.

$ zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

NAME        STATE     READ  WRITE CKSUM
rpool       ONLINE    0     0     0
  mirror-0  ONLINE    0     0     0
    c1t0d0  ONLINE    0     0     0
    c1t1d0  ONLINE    0     0     0
...

ok boot /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0,2/LSILogic,sas@2/disk@1

After the system is rebooted, you would confirm which active boot device is in the system.

$ prtconf -vp | grep bootpath
bootpath:  '/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0,2/LSILogic,sas@2/disk@1,0:a'