If a selection is not made, the screen times out and the system. First phase starts at the time of switching on the machine and is boot prom level, it displays a identification banner mentioning machine host id serial no, architecture type memory and ethernet address this is followed by the self test of various systems in the machine. Shutting down and booting a sparc based system for recovery purposes. When the boot process hangs, determine which services are not running and where the boot process is hanging. Even to understand solaris clearly and to trouble shoot most of the things we need to know the booting process so that we can encounter where exactly is the problem we are getting. This howto guide instructs users unfamiliar with solaris 10 operating system installation on how to install the solaris 10 os on a sunsupported x86 system including the family of 32bit x86 systems as well as 64bit amd64 and. Booting process in solaris 10 the first question while giving any interview in solaris is what is the booting process in solaris or what is the boot phase in solaris. Shutting down and booting a sparc based system for. How to install the wanboot program on the wan boot server. Boot from the installation media or from an install server over the network to recover from a problem that is preventing the system from booting or to recover from a lost root password. After the low level post completes successfully, the boot prom firmware takes control. I am preparing a document in detail showing light on the boot sequence of solaris right from pressing of poweron button the host to the login prompt appearance. The following tables contrast the structure of these operating systems.
Determining which network interface will be used for jumpstart installation network boot. The boot process on x86x64 hardware is bit different than the sparc hardware. Linux and solaris os booting linux switch on the hardware and select the boot kernel from the grub environment. Boot solaris select one of the identified devices to boot the solaris kernel and choose continue. Its same question for linux here at discribe in details tha boot process of any linux system but emphasis on solaris style of things. Solaris 10 proc making filesystem full hi all, i have a solaris 10 box on which proc is a part of the problem is that my partition is getting full mainly due to proc getting a lot of files. If you havent sat down and figured out what all those scripts do, here is an analysis of solaris 8 startup files. In the obp environment, you can check the boot disk and start options single user mode, etc. On sparc platforms, the boot prom is used to boot a sparc based system and to modify boot parameters. Description of the boot process booting and shutting. This book describes how to create the files and directories necessary to perform an unattended jumpstart installation. For the exam, you should make sure you understand what each step of an interactive boot process is asking for. You can switch the environment to a new boot environment by selecting the be and restarting the os.
A process is a program running or being executed on the computer. Solaris to aix use this reference to contrast the aix version 4. The x86x64 hardware also involves the 5 step boot process, same as the sparc hardware. Starting with the oracle solaris 10 release, boot processes on sparc platforms have been modified and enhanced to increase commonality with x86 platforms. How to enable ssh login for root user after a fresh install. Interrupt the autoboot process when you boot the solaris software from an installed disk. This page mentions using installboot on a solaris for intel system. You can thereby isolate a booting phase and quickly resolve the issues. It is reserved 60g for window xp and 100g for solaris 10. The following four boot phases are now independent of each other. For further efficiency, oracle solaris zones can be deployed in each guest os. Since it uses a snapshot, only the updated data consumes the disk space.
The boot process for sparc platform involves 5 phases as shown in the diagram below. New in solaris 10 is the concept of services, described in the service management facility smf section of this chapter. I tried to find what is taking up all this space but du is not returning any big filesdirectories on root. Fujitsu m10 is sold as sparc m10 systems by fujitsu in japan.
Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. Booting process in solaris can be divided in to different phases for ease of study. This menu appears when you boot the solaris release from the disk, cdrom, or the network. For example, you might want to reset the device from which to boot, change the default boot file or kernel, or run hardware diagnostics before bringing the system to a multiuser state. An asterisk indicates the current default boot device.
How to configure iscsi targets on solaris 10 the geek diary. Also with that oracle solaris release, the oracle solaris live upgrade tools have been modified to work in an oracle solaris zfs environment. The boot program then loads the next stage, which in the case of oracle solaris, is grub itself. The common syntax of boot command is solaris sparc system is. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Booting and shutting down oracle solaris on sparc platforms. The low level post code is stored in systems boot prom.
Getting started with solaris 10 must to know keywords. In sparc machines, this is done by prom monitor and in x86x64 machines it is done by bios. Sun solaris 10 deployment guide for hp proliant servers doc. Solaris 10 has a new feature boot m verbose which allows you to customize boot console output. Overview of the oracle solaris boot architecture booting and. Please explain solaris boot sequence in detail unix. After the grub boot sector code loads the rest of grub into memory, the boot process continues. The purpose of this guide is to describe the use of sbadmin in a solaris environment where nonglobal zones are present, and to define what aspects of system recovery are and are not supported when using sbadmin with non.
Networkbased installations oracle solaris 10 sparc. The solaris boot up menu appears, then i select the solaris section. The normal solaris boot process has five main phases. Before kick starting the solaris study lets be aware of few important keywords and facts about the solaris os. The solaris boot command when used with various optional parameters will change the booting behavior. The open boot prom obp phase of the boot process on sparc platforms is unchanged. How to quickly install the solaris 10 os on x86 systems. The boot command without any arguments will boot the system into multiuser mode by default.
The function of boot environment be is to create, delete, and replicate boot environments. This stepbystep guide, complete with screen shots, takes users through the installation process, in 22 simple steps. The following procedure for installing solaris on a proliant server might require adaptation to. The very first boot phase of any system is hardware and memory test done by post power on self test instruction. After i eject solaris 10 disk from dvd rom and reboot. A guide for setting up solaris x86 and other operating systems on a single machine. I have loaded solaris 10 cd1 but unable boot into solaris to complete installation. How to backup and restore zfs root pool in solaris 10.
I think this wrote a valid boot code to the mbr as any other time i installed solaris. This how to guide instructs users unfamiliar with solaris 10 installation on how to install the solaris 10 os on a sun supported x86 system. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on. Booktitle topics bootingandshuttingdownoraclesolarisonx86platforms bootingandshuttingdownasystem,managingbootservices, modifyingbootbehavior,bootingfromzfs. Novice users should be able to complete a solaris 10 operating system installation on a standalone x86 system using the instructions in. Some of the details in this paper may change without notice. Solaris switch the hardware power on, boot via the obp open boot prom. To perform optional features, such as modifying the autoboot and property settings, choose boot tasks. The post code tests the most elementary functions of the system. I have a solaris 10 box that has root file system usage over 80%. There is a slight difference in booting process of a sparc based and x86x64 based solaris operating system.
Understanding the boot process of solaris 11 first cloud. In the last post we saw the boot process in solaris 10 on sparc platform. Booting a system how to perform system boot and shutdown. This paper describes the boot architecture for the solaris 10 106 operating system on x86 platforms, as well as the user experience. Modifying boot parameters oracle solaris administration. The boot prom runs the power on self test post to test the hardware. Solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. 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. Every process has a unique identifier number known as process. Tasks are grouped according to major categories that are listed below. However the last three steps are common on the sparc and x86 hardwares.
Everything works well after this message, but as well have to deploy this installation dvd, im searching the scripts called during the booting process. 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. Simple transition from older environments is achieved using the included p2v physical to virtual tools, such as preflight checker. The a option will ask for configuration information such as where to find the system. Booting from the network involves a different process on systems with bios firmware. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. How to perform system boot and shutdown procedures for solaris 10. I am not very familiar with solaris for intel but when making mirrors on sparc solaris you have to use installboot1m to make the second disk bootable, see. How to use the oracle solaris fast crash dump feature. If yes, break the mirror run the fsck on root file system and boot with single image. If the user just wants to build a jumpstart and can afford the bandwidth to do so, download the solaris dvd and use that instead. First phase starts at the time of switching on the machine and is boot prom level.
When a system is turned on, it initiates lowlevel post. The boot prom firmware booting proceeds in following stages. Choose boot in single user mode by modifying the grub options. Hi i try to install solaris 305 into my new maxtor 160 gb hard drive. The solaris 9 and later cd iso images are laid out differently than previous versions of the iso images for solaris. It creates a new be based on the snapshot of an existing boot environment. Disk space for the second boot environment under oracle solaris zfs with the release of oracle solaris 10 10 08 it is possible to boot from an oracle solaris zfsmanaged pool. How to find number of physicallogical cpus, cores and memory in solaris. In 2003, an addition to the solaris development process was initiated. I currently have linux installed and would like to install solaris 10 on the same system via a different hdrive. Overview of the oracle solaris boot architecture booting. Exam preparation 310200 chapter 1 managing file systems 21 cha.
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