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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
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)
8. Troubleshooting Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)
9. Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)
10. x86: GRUB Based Booting (Reference)
x86: Support for GRUB in the Oracle Solaris OS
x86: Functional Components of GRUB
Naming Conventions That Are Used for Configuring GRUB
Naming Conventions That Are Used by the findroot Command
This section includes information about boot processes that are unique to booting an x86 based system.
When an x86 based system is powered on, it is controlled by the read-only-memory (ROM) Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). The BIOS is the firmware interface on Oracle Solaris operating systems that have x86 64-bit and 32-bit support.
Hardware adapters usually have an on-board BIOS that displays the physical characteristics of the device. The BIOS is used to access the device. During the startup process, the system BIOS checks for the presence of any adapter BIOS. If any adapters are found, the system then loads and executes each adapter BIOS. Each adapter's BIOS runs self-test diagnostics and then displays device information.
The BIOS on most systems has a user interface, where you can select an ordered list of boot devices that consists of the following selections:
Diskette
CD or DVD
Hard disk
Network
The BIOS attempts to boot from each device, in turn, until a valid device with a bootable program is found.
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