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Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris 11.1 Systems     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Booting and Shutting Down a System (Overview)

2.  x86: Administering the GRand Unified Bootloader (Tasks)

3.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

4.  Booting a System (Tasks)

5.  Booting a System From the Network (Tasks)

6.  Troubleshooting Booting a System (Tasks)

Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives

How to List Contents of the Boot Archive

Managing the boot-archive SMF Service

How to Enable or Disable the boot-archive SMF Service

How to Clear a Failed Automatic Boot Archive Update by Manually Updating 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

Index

Chapter 6

Troubleshooting Booting a System (Tasks)

This chapter describes how to troubleshoot issues that prevent the system from booting or that require you to shut down and reboot the system for recovery purposes. Any information in this chapter that applies only to SPARC or x86 based systems is identified as such

This is a list of the information that is in this chapter:

For information about stopping and starting Oracle Solaris for recovery purposes, if you are running a service processor, and instructions on controlling Oracle ILOM service processors, see the hardware documentation at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19694-01/E21741-02/index.html.