Could you boot from another bootable device and use boot.conf(8) to tell it to boot the kernel on the SSD? Bit of a round-about way of doing it but it could work if boot(8) can see the SSD.
If the CD boot loader can see the SSD, you could burn it to a CD-R along with your boot.conf and use it to boot - just make sure you put it back if you use the drive to install software. Just spitballing here, I don't have a sparc64 device readily available for testing. On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 8:31 AM John Gould <johnrgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, Does anyone have a way of booting a pcie nvme device on sparc64. > I can install OBSD on the device but of course there is no way OBP can see > it > as a boot device. I can also use it for storage under OpenBSD which works > fine. > > But! Is there any way to boot OpenBSD 6.5 installed on this drive on > sparc64. > > I'm using a Sun t5120. > > Kind regards John. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse