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About This Book

1.  Oracle Solaris Management Tools (Road Map)

2.  Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks)

3.  Working With the Oracle Java Web Console (Tasks)

4.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)

5.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)

6.  Managing Client-Server Support (Overview)

7.  Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks)

8.  Introduction to Shutting Down and Booting a System

9.  Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview)

10.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

11.  Modifying Oracle Solaris Boot Behavior (Tasks)

12.  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

Booting From a Specified ZFS Root File System on a SPARC Based 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 in Failsafe Mode

How to Boot a SPARC Based System in Failsafe Mode

Booting a SPARC Based System From the Network

SPARC: How to Boot a System From the Network

Booting an x86 Based System by Using GRUB (Task Map)

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 on an x86 Based System

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

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

Booting an x86 Based System in Failsafe Mode

How to Boot an x86 Based System in Failsafe Mode

x86: How to Boot in Failsafe Mode to Forcibly Update a Corrupt Boot Archive

Booting an x86 Based System From the Network

x86: About DHCP Macros

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

Accelerating the Reboot Process on the SPARC Platform (Task Map)

Initiating a Fast Reboot of a SPARC Based System

How to Initiate a Fast Reboot of a SPARC Based System

Performing a Standard Reboot of a SPARC Based System

Managing the Boot Configuration Service

13.  Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)

14.  Troubleshooting Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

15.  x86: GRUB Based Booting (Reference)

16.  x86: Booting a System That Does Not Implement GRUB (Tasks)

17.  Working With the Oracle Solaris Auto Registration regadm Command (Tasks)

18.  Managing Services (Overview)

19.  Managing Services (Tasks)

20.  Managing Software (Overview)

21.  Managing Software With Oracle Solaris System Administration Tools (Tasks)

22.  Managing Software by Using Oracle Solaris Package Commands (Tasks)

23.  Managing Patches

A.  SMF Services

Index

Chapter 12

Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

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

The following is a list of the information that is in this chapter:

For overview information about the boot process, see Chapter 9, Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview).


Note - Starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release, the open source GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) has been implemented on x86 based systems. GRUB is responsible for loading a boot archive, which contains the kernel modules and configuration files, into the system's memory.


For information about booting an x86 based system in a Solaris release that does not implement GRUB based booting, see Chapter 16, x86: Booting a System That Does Not Implement GRUB (Tasks).