[SunHELP] boot device

Greg sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Aug 7 22:48:27 CDT 2001


> hi all
> Is it possible to set the OBP boot option to try alternative device if the
> first one fail to start.
> Ex assume I set 'net' 
> OK> boot net 		... if  fail 
> try to new one
> OK> boot disk		... if fail 

Depends on what you mean by "fail to start".  If you set boot-device to
"disk net" then it will try to open the disk first and, if that fails, will
fall back to using the net device.  But if it can open the device it will
consider that device "okay" even if booting from it fails.

-greg




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