Boot – Admin's Choice

Booting Process in Solaris

Understanding the booting process is important in the sense that you can get a clear idea when a system faces a booting problem if you are familiar with the booting sequence and steps involved. Learn about the booting process in Unix/Solaris

Boot Install

Booting Problems & Solutions in Solaris

Booting problems poses serious challenge to the system administrators as system is down and no one can use it . This article tries to cover some of the general booting problems and their possible solutions to enable understand the problem cause and bring the system up very quickly.

Following are some of the booting issues ,error messages their meaning and possible solutions discussed in this article.

Boot, bootblk, Booting problems in Solaris, ELF, path_to_inst, single user, stat

Basics Boot Install

Managing Sun OpenBoot Parameters and commands

The firmware in Sun's boot PROM is called OpenBoot . Learn about setting up and usage of open boot parameters in system operation and diagnostics .