[SunHELP] boot-device

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Michael

Hmmm....

Out of interest what happens as I would expect it to work as well?

One thing is that the nvramrc appears to be set to something and set to true,
why?

Peter

> On 2 Feb 2017, at 17:55, Connolly, Michael - ITT Interconnect Solutions
<Michael.Connolly at itt.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Solaris 9 system with 3-way mirroring of OS and apps (Disksuite
> 4.2.1). When I set this up (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) I
set
>
> boot-device=primary_boot altboot1 altboot2
>
> where each of those names have a devalias in nvramrc.
>
> I have tested the commands/boot devices individually yet manually
>
> boot primary_boot
>
> boot altboot1
>
> boot altboot2
>
> and each of them will boot from the OK prompt just fine.
>
> However, I thought that if boot-device was set like I have it (3 different
> boot devices) and say, primary_boot was dead, that Solaris would be smart
> enough to automatically move down the list and try altboot1. I even swore I
> tested this and it worked (in that far away galaxy).
>
> Now, it does not. I thought this was the idea with 3 way mirroring?
>
> Ideas? TIA
>
> eeprom:
> test-args: data not available.
> diag-passes=1
> pcia-probe-list=4,1
> pcib-probe-list=5,6,1,2,3,4
> local-mac-address?=false
> fcode-debug?=false
> silent-mode?=false
> scsi-initiator-id=7
> oem-logo: data not available.
> oem-logo?=false
> oem-banner: data not available.
> oem-banner?=false
> ansi-terminal?=true
> screen-#columns=80
> screen-#rows=34
> ttyb-rts-dtr-off=false
> ttyb-ignore-cd=true
> ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
> ttya-ignore-cd=true
> ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
> ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
> output-device=screen
> input-device=keyboard
> load-base=16384
> auto-boot?=true
> boot-command=boot
> diag-file=disk
> diag-device=disk
> boot-file: data not available.
> boot-device=primary_boot altboot1 altboot2
> use-nvramrc?=true
> nvramrc=devalias primary_boot
> /pci at 8,700000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0/disk at w50020f230000f51a,0:a devalias
altboot1
> /pci at 8,700000/SUNW,qlc at 2/fp at 0,0/disk at w50020f230000b788,0:a devalias
altboot2
> /pci at 8,700000/SUNW,qlc at 3/fp at 0,0/disk at w50020f2300002d1d,0:a
> security-mode=none
> security-password: data not available.
> security-#badlogins=0
> diag-out-console=false
> #power-cycles=74
> diag-script=none
> diag-level=min
> diag-switch?=false
> error-reset-recovery=boot
>
>
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