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Chapter 1 Overview of Booting and Shutting Down a System

Booting and Shutdown Features in Oracle Solaris

Using Rights Profiles to Administer Boot Features

Service Management Facility and Booting

Chapter 2 x86: Administering the GRand Unified Bootloader

Administering the GRUB Menu

Password-Protecting the GRUB Menu

Authorizing Users to Access the GRUB Menu

Displaying GRUB Menu Entries

Generating the GRUB Menu

Administering Contents of the GRUB Menu

Using the set-menu Command

Using the change-entry Command

Adding and Removing Menu Entries

How to Add a Boot Entry to the GRUB Menu

How to Remove a Boot Entry From the GRUB Menu

Adding Kernel Arguments at Boot Time

Supported Kernel Arguments

Adding EEPROM Parameters

Customizing the GRUB Configuration

Installing GRUB 2

How to Install the Boot Loader

How to Install GRUB in a Location Other Than the Default Location

Chapter 3 Shutting Down a System

About the System Shutdown Processes

How to Shut Down a System

Turning Off Power to System Devices

Chapter 4 Booting a System

Displaying and Setting Boot Attributes

SPARC: Using the OpenBoot PROM

Identifying the PROM Revision Number of a System

Determining the Default Boot Device

How to Identify Devices on a System

How to Change the Default Boot Device

Working With EEPROM Parameters

EEPROM Parameters on UEFI Systems

Viewing EEPROM Parameters

Setting EEPROM Parameters

About Run Level Booting

How Run Levels Work

When to Use Run Levels or Milestones

Determining a System's Current Run Level

Booting Systems to Specific Run Levels

How to Boot a System Interactively

Booting From an Alternate Operating System or Boot Environment

SPARC: How to Boot From an Alternate Operating System or Boot Environment

x86: How to Boot From an Alternate Boot Environment

Rebooting a System

Accelerating the Reboot Process

x86: About the quiesce Function

x86: Methods to Reboot a System

Chapter 5 Booting a System From the Network

Requirements for Booting a System From the Network

SPARC: Booting a System From the Network

Setting Network Boot Arguments

Setting Up an NVRAM Alias

SPARC: How to Boot From the Network

x86: Booting a System From the Network

x86: How to Boot From the Network

Chapter 6 Managing Systems with Boot Pools

Overview of Booting From Firmware-Inaccessible Storage Devices

Managing a Boot Pool, Boot Pool Datasets and Fallback Images

How to Prevent a BE From Being Removed

Disabling Eviction of All Boot Pool Datasets

How to Make a BE Bootable

How to Update the Fallback Image

OpenBoot Properties in Oracle Solaris

os-root-device Variable

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Booting a System

Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives

Managing the boot-archive SMF Service

How to Manually Update the Boot Archive

x86: How to Clear a Failed Automatic Boot Archive Update on a System That Does Not Support Fast Reboot

Shutting Down and Booting a System for Recovery Purposes

SPARC: How to Stop a System for Recovery Purposes

x86: How to Stop and Reboot a System for Recovery Purposes

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

How to Boot From Media to Resolve an Unknown root Password

x86: How to Boot From Media to Resolve a Problem With the GRUB Configuration That Prevents the System From Booting

Forcing a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System

SPARC: How to Force a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System

x86: How to Force a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System

Booting a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled

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

x86: How to Boot a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled

x86: Troubleshooting Issues With Fast Reboot

x86: Debugging Early Panics That Might Occur

x86: Conditions Under Which Fast Reboot Might Not Work

Troubleshooting Issues With Booting and the Service Management Facility

Problems Booting After an Installation

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Displaying and Setting Boot Attributes

The section describes ways to display and set boot attributes on SPARC and x86 platforms.

Booting and Shutting Down Oracle® Solaris 11.4 Systems

Displaying and Setting Boot Attributes

Booting and Shutting Down Oracle^® Solaris 11.4 Systems