Solaris 10 6/06 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu

Starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release, a GRUB boot menu provides an optional method of switching between boot environments. The GRUB menu is an alternative to activating with the luactivate command or the Activate menu.

Task 

Information 

To activate a boot environment with the GRUB menu 

x86: To Activate a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu (Command-Line Interface)

To fall back to the original boot environment with a GRUB menu 

x86: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu

For overview and planning information for GRUB 

Chapter 5, x86: GRUB Based Booting For Solaris Installation

For a complete GRUB overview and system administration tasks 

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration