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Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on x86 Platforms     Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library
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About This Book

1.  Booting and Shutting Down an x86 Based System (Overview)

2.  Booting an x86 Based System to a Specified State (Tasks)

3.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

4.  Rebooting an x86 Based System (Tasks)

5.  Booting an x86 Based System From the Network (Tasks)

6.  Modifying Boot Parameters on an x86 Based System (Tasks)

7.  Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments on x86 Platforms (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 or Root File System on x86 Platforms

8.  Keeping an x86 Based System Bootable (Tasks)

9.  Troubleshooting Booting an x86 Based System (Tasks)

Index

Chapter 7

Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments on x86 Platforms (Tasks)

This chapter describes how to create, administer, and boot from a ZFS boot environment, also called a BE, on an x86 based system.

The following is a list of the information that is in this chapter:

For overview information about booting an x86 based system, see Chapter 1, Booting and Shutting Down an x86 Based System (Overview).

For information about booting a from a ZFS boot environment on SPARC platforms, see Chapter 7, Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments on SPARC Platforms (Tasks), in Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on SPARC Platforms.

For detailed information about managing boot environments, see Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments.