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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration     Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10
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Preface

1.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)

2.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)

3.  Introduction to Shutting Down and Booting a System

4.  Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview)

5.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

6.  Modifying Oracle Solaris Boot Behavior (Tasks)

Modifying Boot Behavior on SPARC Based Systems (Task Map)

Modifying Boot Behavior on SPARC Based Systems

SPARC: Using the Boot PROM

SPARC: How to Find the PROM Revision Number for a System

SPARC: How to Identify Devices on a System

SPARC: How to Determine the Default Boot Device

SPARC: How to Change the Default Boot Device by Using the Boot PROM

SPARC: How to Change the Default Boot Device by Using the eeprom Command

SPARC: Resetting the System

SPARC: How to Change the Default Kernel by Using the Boot PROM

SPARC: How to Change the Default Kernel by Using the eeprom Command

Modifying Boot Behavior on x86 Based Systems (Task Map)

Modifying Boot Behavior on x86 Based Systems

x86: How to Modify Boot Behavior by Using the eeprom Command

x86: Modifying Boot Behavior by Editing the GRUB Menu at Boot Time

Boot Arguments That Can Be Specified by Editing the GRUB Menu at Boot Time

x86: How to Modify Boot Behavior by Editing the GRUB Menu at Boot Time

x86: Modifying Boot Behavior by Editing the menu.lst File

x86: How to Modify Boot Behavior by Editing the menu.lst File

x86: Locating the Active GRUB menu.lst File

x86: Implementation of the findroot Command

x86: How to Add GRUB Menu Entries That Use the findroot Command

7.  Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

8.  Troubleshooting Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

9.  Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)

10.  x86: GRUB Based Booting (Reference)

11.  Managing Services (Overview)

12.  Managing Services (Tasks)

Index

Chapter 6

Modifying Oracle Solaris Boot Behavior (Tasks)

This chapter provides information about modifying boot behavior.

This is list of the information that is in this chapter:

For what's new in booting and general overview information about the boot process, see Chapter 3, Introduction to Shutting Down and Booting a System.

For step-by-step instructions on booting an Oracle Solaris system, see Chapter 7, Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks).