Thanks. On 21/11/2007, Sébastien Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Andrew a écrit : > > Thanks, Sébastien, > > > > I managed to boot the Linux partition by typing: > > > > boot disk1 > > > > I'm a little confused at the moment with OBP/ show-disks/ devalias/ nvalias. > > > > If anyone could take me through this step-by-step, I'd really appreciate it. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris. > > > > On 21/11/2007, Sébastien Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Chris Andrew a écrit : > >>> Hi, all. > >>> > >>> My Sparcstation is booting from the 2nd HDD, anyone remember how to > >>> set OBP to boot from first disk? > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Chris. > >>> > >> Stop-a during boot (or send a break on serial-line) > >> > >> setenv boot disk > >> > >> printenv to check the env variable is correctly set > >> > >> > > > > > Get a obp manual for yourself. > > Quickly, > the obp sets a number of alias for all the devices of the openprom tree > (which lists all devices). > Those are seen with devalias. > > in the list you should get something like : > disk /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Those are convenient aliases to use instead of the Openprom path. > The path says : > The pci controler at adress 4000 on which is the scsi at the pci > address xxxx on which the channel is 6, the target is 3 and the > lun is 0 is the device you must use when someone use the name disk. > > If you see the devaliases, you should see that there are several disk defined > : > disk0, disk1, disk etc... > > disk means the current disk. > disk0 means the first disk, disk1 the second, etc... > > but you can define the alias to point to any device. use nvedit to change the > aliases. The editor is quite terrible. > And set the use-nvramrc? parameter to 1. > > Last you can gives the boot disk:f which means the 6th partition on the disk. > > See the obp manual for further explanation. > > Seb >
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