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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)
7. Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments on SPARC Platforms (Tasks)
Keeping a SPARC Based System Bootable (Task Map)
Description of the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives
Obtaining Information About the Location and Contents of the SPARC Boot Archive
How to List the Contents of the Boot Archive
Managing the Boot Archive SMF Service
Determining Whether the boot-archive Service Is Running
How to Enable or Disable the boot-archive SMF Service
Maintaining the Integrity of the Boot Archives
How to Clear a Failed Automatic Boot Archive Update by Manually Updating the Boot Archive
This chapter describes how the keep a SPARC based system bootable by using the boot administration interface (bootadm). Procedures for displaying information about the boot archive and for maintaining the integrity of boot archive, as well as troubleshooting boot archive issues, are described.
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 keeping an x86 based system bootable, see Chapter 8, Keeping an x86 Based System Bootable (Tasks), in Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on x86 Platforms.