56 SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers Installation Guide • February 2008
▼ To Boot the Solaris Operating System
1. At the ok prompt, boot from the disk that contains the Solaris OS.
■ If you know which disk to boot from, skip this step and perform Step 2.
■ If you need to determine which disk to boot from, issue the show-disks
command at the ok prompt to see the path to the configured disks, similar to the
following:
2. Type the boot command at the ok prompt.
Use the value from Step 1 to construct the boot command. You must append the
target to the disk path.
In the following example, the server is booted from disk 0 (zero) on a SPARC
Enterprise T5140 server.
▼ To Avoid Booting the Solaris Operating System
at Start Up
In hard drive HDD0, the Solaris OS is preinstalled.
● If you do not want to start the preinstalled OS, set the Open Boot PROM
parameter auto-boot? to false. For example:
ok show-disks
a) /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk
b) /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2/disk
q) NO SELECTION Enter Selection, q to quit: q
ok
ok boot disk0
Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@0 File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_127127-03 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Hostname: hostname
NIS domain name is x.x.x.x
hostname console login:
-> set /HOST/bootmode script="setenv auto-boot? false"
