SUMMARY: E25k OBP won't save aliases

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Wrong command.  Thank-you to Stefan who pointed this out.

nvalias instead of devalias.

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From: Stefan Varga [mailto:Stefan_Varga@tempest.sk]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:17 PM
To: Simon Loewenthal
Subject: Re: E25k OBP won't save aliases

Hi,
use nvalias instead of devalias.
Stefan

Simon Loewenthal wrote:
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> Dear all,
>
>
> I have just built a new domain on a 25k.  It won't be in prd until
> next week, so I admit it is not critical.
> The nvram won't save the alias settings after a reboot/reset-all.
>
> 1) OBP had multiple aliases in it for rootdisk & rootmirror so I used
> nvunalias to remove these followed by a reset-all.
> 2) entered commands:
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a
> devalias bootdisk	  /pci@21c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a
> 3) reset-all
> 4) when obp came back a devalias shows only these:
> 	net                      /pci@21c,70.0000/network@3,1
> 	man-net                  /pci@21c,70.0000/network@3,1
> 	name                     aliases
>
> 5) I looked in the file  /var/opt/SUNWSMS/data/Q/nvramdata and it
> contains a lot of old entries. Is this file used?
>
> # strings /var/opt/SUNWSMS/data/Q/nvramdata bootdisk rootmirror
> bootdisk rootmirror ci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a devalias rootmirror
> /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> @devalias bootdisk /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a
> bootdisk rootmirror
> bootdisk
> bootdisk rootmirror
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias bootdisk /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> ?devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
> ?devalias rootmirror /pci@23c,700000/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@0,0
>
>
> These settings saved afore I remove some entries using nvunalias.  I tried a
> set-defaults and then added the alias once more but has the same problem.
>
> Would someone please explain to me what has happens to stop the nvram 
> settings
> from being saved.
>
> Many thanks,
> S.
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