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Related Information
■ Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers Administration Guide
▼ Boot the Solaris Operating System
1. At the ok prompt, boot from the disk that contains the Solaris OS.
If you need to determine which disk to boot from, type 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 Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5140 server.
Related Information
■ Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers Administration Guide
▼ Avoid Booting the Solaris Operating System at
Startup
In hard drive HDD0, the Solaris OS is preinstalled.
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: