Changing SPARC 5 boot device (SCSI ID)

Glenn Burkhardt glenn at aoi.ultranet.com
Mon Jul 24 09:09:18 EDT 2000


> How do I force my Sparc 5 to boot off a device other than its default of
> .../sd at 6,0:d (hard drive) if I want to have it boot from
> .../cdrom-drive at 4,0 ?

Do you want it to permanently boot from the CDROM?  You can try 

setenv boot-device cdrom

or perhaps

setenv boot-device cdrom-drive at 4,0

but I've only used 'disk' or 'net' here.  You might also want to rummage
around http://docs.sun.com ...

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