Sun Sparc commands to power on and boot up the server.

Booting up the Sun Sparc M3000 server.

After logging into the XSCF console, power on the server.
XSCF> poweron -d 0
DomainIDs to power on:00
Continue? [y|n] :y

Switch to the server console.
XSCF> console -d 0
Connect to DomainID 0?[y|n] :y

Devalias will list all devices which can be booted.
{0} ok devalias
cdrom /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@4,0:f
net /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/network@4
disk /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@0
name aliases

To boot from the disk, use the boot command.
{0} ok boot disk
Boot device: /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@0 File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_141444-09 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
Use is subject to license terms.
Hostname: andrew_lin

Switch back to the XSCF console with
#. will bring you back to the XSCF console.

To list the default boot device use the printenv command.
ok printenv boot-device
boot-device = /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@8/SUNW,qlc@0/fp@0,0/disk@w50060e80058c7b10,1:a

If you wanted to change the default boot device, use the setenv boot-device command.
ok setenv boot-device device[n]

Save the changes with reset-all.
ok reset-all

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