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PostPosted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:11 pm    Post subject: changing boot drive on the SPARC bios environment Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:13 am    Post subject: Re: changing boot drive on the SPARC bios environment Reply with quote

Something like this, maybe?
Code:

setenv boot-device disk1
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks. I'll do that next time. What I did was,
Code:

setenv boot-device /@disk1,1/disk@1,1@disks....

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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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thank you. This will come handy when I install gentoo on a sparc10 that has an SCSI array.

thanks again.

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