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Oracle Solaris Administration: Basic Administration Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
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
What's New in Shutting Down and Booting a System
Support for Fast Reboot on the SPARC Platform
Oracle Solaris Auto Registration Introduced
Automatic Boot Archive Recovery
SPARC Support for Install-Time Updates
Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris ZFS Boot Support
Support for Specifying Platform by Using bootadm Command
Redesign of SPARC Bootstrap Process
x86: Support for Using Power Button to Initiate System Shutdown
Where to Find Shut Down and Boot Tasks
Guidelines for Shutting Down a System
Guidelines for 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)
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)
20. Managing Software (Overview)
21. Managing Software With Oracle Solaris System Administration Tools (Tasks)
22. Managing Software by Using Oracle Solaris Package Commands (Tasks)
The following terminology is used when shutting down and booting a system:
A run level is a letter or digit that represents a system state in which a particular set of system services are available. The system is always running in one of a set of well-defined run levels. Run levels are also referred to as init states because the init process maintains the run level. System administrators use the init command or the svcadm command to initiate a run-level transition. This book refers to init states as run levels.
A boot option describes how a system is booted.
Different boot options include the following:
Interactive boot – You are prompted to provide information about how the system is booted, such as the kernel and device path name.
Reconfiguration boot – The system is reconfigured to support newly added hardware or new pseudo devices.
Recovery boot – The system is hung or an invalid entry is prohibiting the system from booting successfully or from allowing users to log in.
For terminology that is specific to GRUB based booting, see x86: GRUB Terminology.