Chapter 11.  GRUB Based Booting (Tasks)

Table of Contents

What's New or Changed in GRUB Based Booting?
GRUB Based Booting (Overview)
How GRUB Based Booting Works
Changes to the Solaris OS Installation Process
GRUB Device Naming Conventions
Functional Components of GRUB
GRUB Menu
Modifying Boot Behavior in the Solaris OS
GRUB Based Disk Boot
GRUB Based Booting From the Network
GRUB Terminology
GRUB Based Booting (Task Map)
Booting a System in the GRUB Based Boot Environment
Modifying the Solaris Boot Behavior by Editing the GRUB Menu
Using the kernel Command
Performing a GRUB Based Boot From the Network
About DHCP Macros
Forcing a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System
The GRUB Based Boot Process (Reference)
System BIOS in the GRUB Boot Environment
Boot Subsystem in the GRUB Boot Environment
Solaris Kernel Initialization Process in the GRUB Boot Environment
How Multiple Operating Systems Are Supported in the GRUB Boot Environment
Management of the GRUB Boot Archive
GRUB Boot Archives

What's New or Changed in GRUB Based Booting?

Solaris Express 3/06: In this Solaris release, the GRUB failsafe interaction has changed. Previously, when you booted the failsafe archive, you were prompted to update the boot archives, regardless of whether any boot archives were out-of-date. Now, the system prompts you to update only boot archives that are out-of-date. See Example 11–8 for an example.

For an example of the previous GRUB failsafe interaction, see Booting the Failsafe Archive for Recovery Purposes to Repair a Critical System Resource.