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Updated: November 2020

Booting and Shutting Down Oracle^® Solaris 11.4 Systems

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Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 Overview of Booting and Shutting Down a System

Chapter 2 x86: Administering the GRand Unified Bootloader

Chapter 3 Shutting Down a System

Chapter 4 Booting a System

Chapter 5 Booting a System From the Network

Chapter 6 Managing Systems with Boot Pools

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Booting a System

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Chapter 6

Managing Systems with Boot Pools

This chapter provides information that is relevant to systems that use storage devices inaccessible to firmware such as SPARC M7 series servers.

The chapter covers the following topics:

Overview of Booting From Firmware-Inaccessible Storage Devices
Managing a Boot Pool, Boot Pool Datasets and Fallback Images
OpenBoot Properties in Oracle Solaris
os-root-device Variable

Note - To manage these systems and issue commands described in this chapter, you must have the appropriate rights profiles. See Using Rights Profiles to Administer Boot Features.

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