On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:51:00 +0530 G N S <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote: > > You can select the boot disk from the OpenBoot command prompt. > > > > How? > boot /dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx ? > > The OBP documentation though indicates "boot [device-specifier] > [arguments]", it doesn't provide the parameters. > (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/216.1?q=%22OpenBoot+3.x%22) The argument to "boot" can either be a full device path (/dev/dsk/c...@#!) or a device alias (try devalias at the OBP) > > I had tried Sparc variant of Ubuntu on SunFire V440. It had failed and > I didn't have the patience to persist. How good is FreeBSD/Linux on > Sparc systems? Ubuntu is a first class citizen on the Niagara boxes (T-1000, T-2000). And Gentoo *apparently* has better sparc support than Debain. But I've never gotten around to installing a *BSD on a SPARC monster yet :-( Cheers, Ananth
