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Oracle® Server X5-4 Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris Operating System

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Updated: November 2015
 
 

Install Oracle Solaris Manually Using Local or Remote Media

This procedure describes how to boot the Oracle Solaris operating system (OS) installation from local or remote media. It assumes that you are booting the installation media from one of the following sources:

  • Oracle Solaris ISO image on a DVD

  • Oracle Solaris ISO image on a network repository


    Note -  If you are booting the installation media from a PXE environment, see Install Oracle Solaris Using PXE Network Boot for instructions.
  1. Ensure that the installation media is available to boot.
    • For an ISO image on a DVD, insert the DVD into the local or remote DVD drive.

    • For an ISO image on the network, ensure that the Oracle Solaris ISO image is available and that the ISO image has been mounted in the Oracle ILOM Remote System Console Plus application using the KVMS menu.

    For additional information about how to set up the install media, see Selecting the Boot Media Option.

  2. Reset or power on the server.

    For example, do one of the following:

    • From the local server, press the Power button (approximately 1 second) on the front panel of the server to turn the server off, then press the Power button again to power on the server.

    • From the Oracle ILOM web interface, click Host Management → Power Control, select Reset from the Select Action list box, then click Save.

    • From the Oracle ILOM CLI, type: reset /System

    The server begins the boot process and the BIOS screen appears.


    image:Graphic showing the BIOS Screen.

    Note -  The next event occurs very quickly; therefore, focused attention is needed for the following steps. Please watch carefully for these messages as they appear on the screen for a brief time. You might want to enlarge the size of your screen to eliminate scroll bars.
  3. In the BIOS screen, press the F8 key to specify a temporary boot device for the Oracle Solaris OS installation.

    [Boot Pop Up Menu Selected] appears at the bottom of the BIOS screen.

    Then the Please Select Boot Device menu appears. The screen that appears is different depending on whether you have the UEFI/BIOS Boot Mode configured for Legacy BIOS Boot Mode or UEFI Boot Mode.

    • For Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, a screen similar to the following appears:


      image:Graphic showing the Please Select Boot Device menu in                                         Legacy BIOS Boot mode.
    • For UEFI Boot Mode, a screen similar to the following appears:


      image:Graphic showing the Please Select Boot Device menu in                                         UEFI Boot mode.

    Note -  The Please Select Boot Device menu might differ depending on the type of disk controller, and other hardware, such as PCIe network cards, installed in your server.
  4. In the Please Select Boot Device menu, select the menu item according to the Solaris OS media installation method and the UEFI/BIOS Boot Mode you elected to use, and then press Enter.

    For example:

    • If you elected to use the Oracle ILOM Remote System Console Plus application method in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, select SATA:DVD:SATA0 P0: TEAC DV-W28SS-W from the Legacy BIOS Boot Mode version of the Please Select Boot Device menu screen.
    • If you elected to use the remote console delivery method in UEFI Boot Mode, select [UEFI]USB:SUN from the UEFI Boot Mode version of the Please Select Boot Device menu screen.

    The GRUB menu appears.

  5. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

    For instructions for completing the Oracle Solaris installation, refer to the Oracle Solaris installation documentation at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/solaris-11-192991.html.

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