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How to boot from alternative drive in Solaris x86 - VMware environment

edited Oct 20, 2019 9:15PM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 9 commentsAnswered ✓

When using Solaris on Sun hardware, we could go to the "ok" prompt and use the command "boot disk2" (for example) or in Solaris use the comment "reboot -- disk2" to boot a VM off of a different device, but that does not work in a virtualized environment. How is that accomplished in a VMware environment? (If this has been answered elsewhere, please point me in the right direction).

Just a little background -- the server I am trying to maintain was given woefully inadequate space for the operating environment and swap space. When using Sun hardware, I was able to correct the situation by adding an additional drive, replicating the OS there and booting off the drive, and then correcting the partitioning of the original drive. I know that there are tools (such as growfs) to expand a logical partition, but I would rather fix this problem properly for whomever might be a system administrator in the future.

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