changing default boot device on SS1
2007-12-25 8:04:00
$ I have a sparcstation 1 with two internal disk drives and one external
$ drive. Disk 0 is bad. It's not a high priority to fix this because I
$ have enough disk space and I've configured it to use root and /usr from
$ disk 1 and swap and /var on the external disk. How do I set the
$ default boot device so I don't have to type "b sd(0,1,0)" to boot? The
$ eeprom does not seem to have a field for boot-file.
This was an old eeprom so some of your advice didn't pertain to it.
There is no field for boot-device. However, some of you knew that
there is a boot-from field. The answer was to type "eeprom
'boot-from=sd(0,1,0)vmunix'". I could have also done a "n" and a
"setenv ..." but I did the change while remotely logged in. I tested
it by rebooting. (I'm brave.)
Thanks to:
fd@kolibri.fm.bs.dlr.de (Frank Dzaak)
George A. Tan <george@scb1.larc.nasa.gov>
zdv123@zam092.zam.kfa-juelich.de (V.Sander)
allegra!mp (Mark Plotnick)
coez@tet.uni-hannover.de (Cengiz Oezcan-Barlach)
dsnmkey@dsnsun.ericsson.se (Martin Kelly)
Larry Chin <larry@cchtor.cch.com>
Tim Beyea <beyea@ERC.MsState.Edu>
Jeffrey Marans <jeff@erie.irc.nrc.ca>
allegra!jpl (John P. Linderman)
2Lt David Hightower <hightowr@cadre.af.mil>
mikem@ll.mit.edu (Michael J Maciolek)
reagan!brian@uu2.psi.com (Brian Decker)
Christian Lawrence <cal@soac.bellcore.com>
aad@lovecraft.siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
mharris@jpmorgan.com (Michael Harris)
Chip Christian <allegra!chip>
access!calvin!bill@uu2.psi.com (Bill Hunter)
baumann@proton.llumc.edu (Michael Baumann)
c3314jcl@mercury.nwac.sea06.navy.mil (Johnson Lew)
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
b4sim@dny.rockwell.com (Building 4 Simulation Group)
Tommy Reingold
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
tommy@boole.att.com or att!boole!tommy
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