what is "disk0:a" ?

From: Gary Brett (gary.brett@fidessa.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 04:32:22 EST


Hi there

A real quick question, A new v210 out of the box with no hard disks...I
needed to put some disks from another running v210 into this one, so I
put them in and booted the box, but it couldn't find the boot
device....a quick check in the OBP and I noticed the boot device is set
to "disk0:a" however after typing "devalias" there is no alias for
"disk0:a" only the usual disk, disk0, disk1 etc etc.

So I changed it to disk0 ( setenv boot-device disk0 )and everything's
fine

Could anybody explain to me why the default config has disk0:a and what
this means ? ie , what is the ":a" bit

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Gary

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