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SPARC: Booting a System From the Network
Updated: November 2020
Booting and Shutting Down Oracle
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Solaris 11.4 Systems
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Chapter 1 Overview of Booting and Shutting Down a System
Booting and Shutdown Features in Oracle Solaris
Using Rights Profiles to Administer Boot Features
Service Management Facility and Booting
Chapter 2 x86: Administering the GRand Unified Bootloader
Administering the GRUB Menu
Password-Protecting the GRUB Menu
Authorizing Users to Access the GRUB Menu
Displaying GRUB Menu Entries
Generating the GRUB Menu
Administering Contents of the GRUB Menu
Using the set-menu Command
Using the change-entry Command
Adding and Removing Menu Entries
How to Add a Boot Entry to the GRUB Menu
How to Remove a Boot Entry From the GRUB Menu
Adding Kernel Arguments at Boot Time
Supported Kernel Arguments
Adding EEPROM Parameters
Customizing the GRUB Configuration
Installing GRUB 2
How to Install the Boot Loader
How to Install GRUB in a Location Other Than the Default Location
Chapter 3 Shutting Down a System
About the System Shutdown Processes
How to Shut Down a System
Turning Off Power to System Devices
Chapter 4 Booting a System
Displaying and Setting Boot Attributes
SPARC: Using the OpenBoot PROM
Identifying the PROM Revision Number of a System
Determining the Default Boot Device
How to Identify Devices on a System
How to Change the Default Boot Device
Working With EEPROM Parameters
EEPROM Parameters on UEFI Systems
Viewing EEPROM Parameters
Setting EEPROM Parameters
About Run Level Booting
How Run Levels Work
When to Use Run Levels or Milestones
Determining a System's Current Run Level
Booting Systems to Specific Run Levels
How to Boot a System Interactively
Booting From an Alternate Operating System or Boot Environment
SPARC: How to Boot From an Alternate Operating System or Boot Environment
x86: How to Boot From an Alternate Boot Environment
Rebooting a System
Accelerating the Reboot Process
x86: About the quiesce Function
x86: Methods to Reboot a System
Chapter 5 Booting a System From the Network
Requirements for Booting a System From the Network
SPARC: Booting a System From the Network
Setting Network Boot Arguments
Setting Up an NVRAM Alias
SPARC: How to Boot From the Network
x86: Booting a System From the Network
x86: How to Boot From the Network
Chapter 6 Managing Systems with Boot Pools
Overview of Booting From Firmware-Inaccessible Storage Devices
Managing a Boot Pool, Boot Pool Datasets and Fallback Images
How to Prevent a BE From Being Removed
Disabling Eviction of All Boot Pool Datasets
How to Make a BE Bootable
How to Update the Fallback Image
OpenBoot Properties in Oracle Solaris
os-root-device Variable
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Booting a System
Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives
Managing the boot-archive SMF Service
How to Manually Update the Boot Archive
x86: How to Clear a Failed Automatic Boot Archive Update on a System That Does Not Support Fast Reboot
Shutting Down and Booting a System for Recovery Purposes
SPARC: How to Stop a System for Recovery Purposes
x86: How to Stop and Reboot a System for Recovery Purposes
How to Boot to a Single-User State to Resolve a Bad root Shell or Password Problem
How to Boot From Media to Resolve an Unknown root Password
x86: How to Boot From Media to Resolve a Problem With the GRUB Configuration That Prevents the System From Booting
Forcing a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System
SPARC: How to Force a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System
x86: How to Force a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System
Booting a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled
SPARC: How to Boot a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled
x86: How to Boot a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled
x86: Troubleshooting Issues With Fast Reboot
x86: Debugging Early Panics That Might Occur
x86: Conditions Under Which Fast Reboot Might Not Work
Troubleshooting Issues With Booting and the Service Management Facility
Problems Booting After an Installation
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SPARC: Booting a System From the Network
The information in this section refers to SPARC systems.
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