Changing SPARC 5 boot device (SCSI ID)

Anthony J. Gabrielson agabriel at coe.neu.edu
Mon Jul 24 10:43:57 EDT 2000


Hello,
	Have you read the sun cdrom faq (www.sunhelp.org)?  I could be off
but shouldn't the cdrom be at id 6 and the tape drive be at id 4?

Anthony

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

> > 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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