Solaris boot question

Thu Dec 27 15:32:10 PST 2001

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:53:18PM -0800, Hal Pomeranz wrote:
> 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!

If you ever need to get this info from the OpenBoot PROM, instead of
the OS, use the show-devs command at the "ok" prompt and vgrep for your
hme card.

-Stu
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