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Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on SPARC Platforms     Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Booting and Shutting Down a SPARC Based System (Overview)

2.  Booting a SPARC Based System to a Specified State (Tasks)

3.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

4.  Rebooting a SPARC Based System (Tasks)

5.  Booting a SPARC Based System From the Network (Tasks)

6.  Modifying Boot Parameters on a SPARC Based System (Tasks)

7.  Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments on SPARC Platforms (Tasks)

8.  Keeping a SPARC Based System Bootable (Tasks)

9.  Troubleshooting Booting a SPARC Based System (Tasks)

Troubleshooting Booting a SPARC Based System (Task Map)

Shutting Down and Booting a SPARC Based System for Recovery Purposes

Stopping and Booting for System Recovery Purposes

How to Stop a System for Recovery Purposes

How to Boot in Single-User Mode to Resolve a Bad root Shell or Password Problem

How to Boot From Media to Resolve an Unknown root Password

How to Boot a System Without Starting Any Services

Forcing a Crash Dump and Reboot of a SPARC Based System

How to Force a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System

How to Boot a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled

Index

Chapter 9

Troubleshooting Booting a SPARC Based System (Tasks)

The following are procedures for troubleshooting booting an Oracle Solaris instance on a SPARC based system.

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

For information about stopping and starting Oracle Solaris for recovery purposes, if you are running a service processor, as well as instructions on controlling Oracle ILOM service processors, see the hardware documentation at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19166-01/E20792/z400130a9112.html#scrolltoc.

For overview information about booting a SPARC based system, see Chapter 1, Booting and Shutting Down a SPARC Based System (Overview).

For information about how to resolve problems with the Oracle Solaris boot archives, see Maintaining the Integrity of the Boot Archives.