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How to I move the disk containing Solaris from the ATAPI primary master controller to the secondary controller or slave connector (or both)?

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How to I move the disk containing Solaris from the ATAPI primary master controller to the secondary controller or slave connector (or both)?

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• Move the disk with Solaris to the new location (secondary master controller or primary or secondary slave controller). • Boot from the “1 of 2” Solaris installation CDROM • mount the root boot partition at /mnt • Reconfigure the device tree: drvconfig -r /mnt/devices devlinks -r /mnt disks -r /mnt Verify that the links /dev/dsk/c1d0s* to ../../devices/* exist. • Type “rm /etc/path_to_install” (or remove all lines but comments in this file) • Edit file /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc. For example if you’re moving from the primary master to secondary master, change “ide@0” to “ide@1”: setprop bootpath ‘/pci@0,0/pci-ide@4,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0:a’ to setprop bootpath ‘/pci@0,0/pci-ide@4,1/ide@1/cmdk@0,0:a’ • Remove the CDROM and /usr/sbin/reboot (if you removed /etc/path_to_install then, at the booting Solaris prompt, type “b -a”) Once Solaris is on the secondary master, you must enable booting to it. Here’s three methods: • Change the BIOS settings to boot to D: (the secondary master) • Boot from t

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