Solaris Prom status Commands and Parameters

(i) instruction set

Format: ok> Instruction

1.banner Display current machine configuration status, CPU, memory, hostid,ethernet

2.PROBE-SCSI displays the device attached to the internal SCSI channel

3.probe-scsi-all displays all SCSI channels and attached devices

4.probe-ide displays all IDE channels and attached devices (for U10,U5)

Probe-fcal-all

5.devalias display device alias, such as CDROM,DISK,DISK0,DISK1, etc.

6.printenv no parameters, display environment variables or

parameter is an environment variable name such as: Printenv auto-boot?

7.SETENV setting environment variables, such as: Setenv auto-boot? False

8.set-default restore environment variables predetermined values such as: Set-default auto-boot?

9.set-defaults Restore all environment variable predefined values

10.boot device [option] boot host

Device: Device alias, such as: cdrom,disk,net

or direct device name such as: Ultra60 external CDROM

/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/disk@6,0:f

Option:-R system Reconfiguration

-S to start a single user environment

11.eject [Cdrom|floppy] pop-up cdrom or floppy

12.reset Reset

(ii) Environment variables

1.auto-boot? Scheduled value =true starts automatically

=false into Prom state

2.diag-switch? Scheduled value =false boot state, boot device named Boot-device

=true diagnostics status, boot device name is Diag-device

3.boot-device predetermined Value =disk

4.diag-device predetermined Value =net

5.tpe-link-test? Network Detection =true Detection Network (part of the machine has this variable)