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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)

7.  Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

Booting a SPARC Based System (Task Map)

Booting a SPARC Based System

SPARC: How to Boot a System to Run Level 3 (Multiuser Level)

SPARC: How to Boot a System to Run Level S (Single-User Level)

SPARC: How to Boot a System Interactively

SPARC: How to Boot a Kernel Other Than the Default Kernel

SPARC: Booting From a Specified ZFS Root File System

SPARC: How to List Available Bootable Datasets Within a ZFS Root Pool

SPARC: How to Boot From a Specified ZFS Root File System

Booting a SPARC Based System From the Network

SPARC: How to Boot a System From the Network

Booting an x86 Based System (Task Map)

Booting an x86 Based System

x86: How to Boot a System to Run Level 3 (Multiuser)

x86: How to Boot a System to Run Level S (Single-User Level)

x86: How to Boot a System Interactively

x86: Booting From a Specified ZFS Root File System

x86: How to Display a List of the Available ZFS Boot Environments

x86: How to Boot From a Specified ZFS Root File System

Using Fast Reboot (Task Map)

Using Fast Reboot

How to Initiate a Fast Reboot of a SPARC Based System

How to Initiate a Fast Reboot of an x86 Based System

x86: How to Fast Reboot a System to the nth Entry in the GRUB menu.lst File

x86: Initiating a Fast Reboot of a System by Specifying an Alternate Boot Environment

Performing a Slow Reboot of a System

Managing the Boot Configuration Service

x86: Debugging Early Panics That Might Occur

x86: Troubleshooting Conditions That Might Prevent Fast Reboot From Working

Booting an x86 Based System from the Network

x86: About DHCP Macros

x86: How to Perform a GRUB Based Boot From the Network

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 7

Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

This chapter describes the procedures for booting Oracle Solaris on SPARC and x86 based systems.

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

For overview information about the boot process, see Chapter 4, Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview).