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Outline

Introduction

260

Booting a System

260

Powering On the System

261

The Boot PROM and Program Phases

261

The OpenBoot Environment

262

Entry-Level to High-End Systems

264

Accessing the OpenBoot Environment

264

System Control Switch

265

OpenBoot Firmware Tasks

266

The OpenBoot Architecture

267

The OpenBoot Interface

269

Getting Help in OpenBoot

269

PROM Device Tree (Full Device Pathnames)

271

OpenBoot Device Aliases

276

OpenBoot NVRAM

278

The nvedit Line Editor

285

OpenBoot Security

287

OpenBoot Diagnostics

289

Input and Output Control

293

OpenBoot PROM Versions

294

Booting a System

295

The boot Command

296

The Kernel

303

The init Phase

310

The Solaris Management Facility (SMF) Service

311

Service Dependencies

315

SMF Command-line Administration Utilities

316

Starting and Stopping Services Using SMF

321

Starting Services During Boot

324

SMF Message Logging

326

Creating New Service Scripts

326

Legacy Services

334

Using the Run Control Scripts to Stop or Start Services

335

Adding Scripts to the Run Control Directories

338

System Shutdown

339

Commands to Shut Down the System

340

The /usr/sbin/shutdown Command

340

The /sbin/init Command

342

The /usr/sbin/halt Command

342

The /usr/sbin/reboot Command

343

The /usr/sbin/poweroff Command

343

Stopping the System for Recovery Purposes

343

Turning Off the Power to the Hardware

345

Summary

346



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