Enable or Disable Automatic Booting (Oracle Solaris)

While running Oracle Solaris, use this procedure to configure OpenBoot so that a host reset or power on either attempts to boot automatically, or not. This change is permanent but only takes effect after a host reset.

1. Log in to Oracle Solaris as a user with root privileges.
2. Set the OpenBoot auto-boot? parameter.

   • true – (Default) The host automatically attempts to boot from the devices specified in boot-device.

   • false – The host does not automatically boot. You can boot manually.

   For example:

   # eeprom auto-boot?=false
   

3. Verify the change.

   # eeprom auto-boot?
   auto-boot?=false
   

4. Reset the host.

   # init 6
   

   The host resets. After initialization, the host attempts to boot or not based on your configuration.

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