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Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on SPARC Platforms Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
1. Booting and Shutting Down a SPARC Based System (Overview)
2. Booting a SPARC Based System to a Specified State (Tasks)
3. Shutting Down a System (Tasks)
4. Rebooting a SPARC Based System (Tasks)
5. Booting a SPARC Based System From the Network (Tasks)
6. Modifying Boot Parameters on a SPARC Based System (Tasks)
Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments (Task Map)
Creating and Administering Boot Environments
How to Create a New Boot Environment
How to Create a Snapshot of a Boot Environment
How to Create a Boot Environment From an Existing Snapshot
How to Activate a Newly Created Boot Environment
How to Display a List of Available Boot Environments, Snapshots, and Datasets
How to Destroy a Boot Environment
Booting From a ZFS Boot Environment on SPARC Platforms
SPARC: How to Display a List of Available Boot Environments During the Boot Sequence
How to Boot From a ZFS Boot Environment or Root File System
8. Keeping a SPARC Based System Bootable (Tasks)
This chapter describes how to create, administer, and boot from a ZFS boot environment, also called a BE, on a SPARC based system.
The following is a list of the information that is in this chapter:
For overview information about booting a SPARC based system, see Chapter 1, Booting and Shutting Down a SPARC Based System (Overview).
For information about booting from a ZFS boot environment on an x86 based system, see Chapter 7, Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments on x86 Platforms (Tasks), in Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on x86 Platforms.
For detailed information about managing boot environments, see Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments.