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jicman n00b
Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester, NY
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject: changing boot drive on the SPARC bios environment |
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Greetings!
So, I set /boot to be on hdb1, instead of hda1, and now, after every reboot, I need to type some long string so set the boot environment to disk1. The question is, how do I make this command stay put? I don't want to have to reinstall everything again and have to use hda1 for boot.
Any ideas you SPARC geniouses?
thanks,
jic |
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spam_ Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 105 Location: /dev/null
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:13 am Post subject: Re: changing boot drive on the SPARC bios environment |
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Something like this, maybe?
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setenv boot-device disk1
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jicman n00b
Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester, NY
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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thanks. I'll do that next time. What I did was,
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setenv boot-device /@disk1,1/disk@1,1@disks....
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or something like that. I had to copy exactly what disk1 was to be able to change it. But I like yours better.
thanks,
josé |
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falcon_munich n00b
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 17
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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try devalias for listing the aliases,
nvalias to create a new one
and nvstore to save the new aliases.
if you set up a software raid you could configure two boot devices.
something like
setenv boot-device disk mirror
with that the system could boot when one disk is defekt.
on the most systems you dont have to create new aliases, there should exist some for the internal disks per default _________________ Wer später bremst, fährt länger schnell. |
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jicman n00b
Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester, NY
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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thank you. This will come handy when I install gentoo on a sparc10 that has an SCSI array.
thanks again.
jic |
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