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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)

13.  Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)

Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Task Map)

Description of the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives

Managing the boot-archive Service

How to Enable or Disable the boot-archive Service

Automatic Boot Archive Recovery

x86: How to Clear Automatic Boot Archive Update Failures by Using the auto-reboot-safe Property

How to Clear Automatic Boot Archive Update Failures by Using the bootadm Command

Using the bootadm Command to Manage the Boot Archives

How to Manually Update the Boot Archive by Using the bootadm Command

How to Manually Update the Boot Archive on a Solaris Volume Manager RAID-1 (Mirrored) Root Partition

How to List Contents of the Boot Archive

x86: How to Locate the Active GRUB Menu and List Current Menu Entries

x86: How to Set the Default Boot Entry for the Active GRUB Menu

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 Oracle Configuration Manager

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 13

Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)

This chapter describes how the Oracle Solaris boot archives are managed. Procedures for using the bootadm command are described in detail.

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). For step-by-step instructions on booting a system, see Chapter 12, Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks).