Solaris boot question

Thu Dec 27 13:53:18 PST 2001

On Thu Dec 27 01:32, Hal Pomeranz wrote:
> I have an old Ultra1 that has a 10Mbit le0 interface on the motherboard
> and a 100Mbit hme0 interface on an SBUS card.  I would like to jumpstart
> the machine off of its hme0 interface rather than the default le0.
> 
> I realize that this is going to require my figuring out the device path for
> the hme0 interface so that I can change the devalias for the "net" boot
> device.  Unfortunately, I have no idea how to figure out the correct device
> path -- i.e., the thing that looks like /sbus/ledma at e,8400010/le at e,8c00000
> (which is the device path for the le0 interface). 

Turns out I'm sitting next to another member of this email list (John
Detke) who knew the answer-- "check the output of the dmesg command".
This is the correct answer, and I'm happily booting off my hme0
interface now (aka /sbus at 1f,0/SUNW,hme at 0,8c00000).  Thanks, John!

--Hal