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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade
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Preface

Part I Overall Planning of Any Solaris Installation or Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  What's New in Solaris Installation

3.  Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)

4.  System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)

5.  Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)

Part II Understanding Installations That Relate to ZFS, Booting, Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes

6.  ZFS Root File System Installation (Planning)

7.  SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)

Booting for Solaris (Overview)

Booting ZFS Boot Environments (Overview)

x86: GRUB Based Booting (Overview)

x86: GRUB Based Booting (Planning)

x86: Performing a GRUB Based Installation From the Network

8.  Upgrading When Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)

9.  Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)

10.  Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 7

SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release, changes in Solaris boot architecture provides many new features, including booting from different file system types, such as ZFS file systems. This chapter describes some of these changes and provides references to more information about booting. Also, this chapter provides an overview of GRUB based booting for x86 systems.

This chapter contains the following sections: