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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration     Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10
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Preface

1.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)

2.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)

3.  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

Automatic Boot Archive Recovery

GNOME Restart Dialog Support for Fast Reboot

Support for Fast Reboot on the x86 Platform

iSCSI Boot

Where to Find Shut Down and Boot Tasks

Shut Down and Boot Terminology

Guidelines for Shutting Down a System

Guidelines for Booting a System

When to Shut Down a System

When to Boot a System

4.  Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview)

5.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

6.  Modifying Oracle Solaris Boot Behavior (Tasks)

7.  Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

8.  Troubleshooting Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

9.  Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)

10.  x86: GRUB Based Booting (Reference)

11.  Managing Services (Overview)

12.  Managing Services (Tasks)

Index

Chapter 3

Introduction to Shutting Down and Booting a System

Oracle Solaris is designed to run continuously, so that electronic mail and network resources are available to users. This chapter provides guidelines for shutting down and booting a system.

This is a list of the information that in this chapter:

For an overview of all of the boot features and methods that are available in the Oracle Solaris release, see Chapter 4, Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview).

For instructions on booting a system, see Chapter 7, Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks).