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Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on x86 Platforms Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
1. Booting and Shutting Down an x86 Based System (Overview)
2. Booting an x86 Based System to a Specified State (Tasks)
3. Shutting Down a System (Tasks)
4. Rebooting an x86 Based System (Tasks)
5. Booting an x86 Based System From the Network (Tasks)
6. Modifying Boot Parameters on an x86 Based System (Tasks)
Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments (Task Map)
Creating and Administering Boot Environments
How to Create a New Boot Environment
How to Create a Snapshot of a Boot Environment
How to Create a Boot Environment From an Existing Snapshot
How to Activate a Newly Created Boot Environment
How to Display a List of Available Boot Environments, Snapshots, and Datasets
How to Destroy a Boot Environment
Booting From a ZFS Boot Environment or Root File System on x86 Platforms
8. Keeping an x86 Based System Bootable (Tasks)
This chapter describes how to create, administer, and boot from a ZFS boot environment, also called a BE, on an x86 based system.
The following is a list of the information that is in this chapter:
Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments (Task Map)
Booting From a ZFS Boot Environment or Root File System on x86 Platforms
For overview information about booting an x86 based system, see Chapter 1, Booting and Shutting Down an x86 Based System (Overview).
For information about booting a from a ZFS boot environment on SPARC platforms, see Chapter 7, Creating, Administering, and Booting From ZFS Boot Environments on SPARC Platforms (Tasks), in Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on SPARC Platforms.
For detailed information about managing boot environments, see Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments.