Re: Have you booted from SRC/P RAID?

From: Michael Vilain (vilain_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 08/10/03 

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:04:39 -0700

In article <c9bc36ff.0308092104.591e4506@posting.google.com>,
 ramon@conexus.net (Ramon F Herrera) wrote:

> There is a lot of conflicting information -in this NG
> and the manuals- about the [in]ability to boot from the
> SRC/P SCSI RAID card. Have you personally been able to
> do it?
>
> From an October 1999 Manual:
>
> "(The Solaris Operating Environment cannot currently be booted from
> SRC/P RAID card.)"

To qualify your question: Solaris must boot from a plain UFS structured
filesystem. If your RAID hardware can present a logical unit through
the controller, you can direct the OBP to attempt to boot from this
device. It may require setting up devalias, but it can be done.

However, if you have to use some sort of software RAID or additional
software to access the volume, you're likely to be out of luck. If
Solaris has to be up to 'see' the volume, forgetaboutit. 

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