Fyi, i am newly admin for solaris system, in the past i only handle hpux box. Displaying and setting boot attributes by using the openboot prom. Ive run into situations before were a system did not boot solaris. You can boot the solaris operating system from the ok prompt using the boot. Setting the openboot security mode setting the security mode and password can be dangerous. Using the s option with the boot command boots solaris in singleuser mode. You have too many points of failure for the basic operation. I had a hard drive failure on my solaris 10 sparc v440 server. I have been dealing with solaris 10 live upgrade issues from almost five years but still the new lu patches are not able to fix the common issues like updating the menu. I think of solaris as strictly a server os and certainly not meant for laptops. Dualboot linux on a mac with original boot loader without uninstalling os x.
The riedell solaris boot is the first of its kind in riedells celebrated line of performance skate boots. If the system is configured with zfs root filesystem. How do i get my mac to boot from an ubuntu usb key. It is necessary when webstart installation is used in order to boot solaris kernel from miniroot temporary file system. Displaying and setting boot attributes booting and shutting down. To boot solaris using settings other than the default boot settings, you can use the following options with the boot command. Displaying and setting boot attributes booting and. It describes how to access openboot and the various commands that are.
Ive tried setting the boot parameters in the openboot prom but nothing i seem to do effects the boot. Solaris 10 san boot issue during solaris 10 installation on a san based disk, sun fire v10 was not rebooting after the first cd installation. Your system isnt having trouble booting, it cant find boot media at all. Cant open boot device the unix and linux forums hq. Also when the system is booted up you can see the 2 different boot options to select from. Managing boot environments in solaris11 is almost same as solaris 10s live upgrade.
Select advanced and change the fast bios mode to off. Openboot nvram how to perform system boot and shutdown. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. The program that is loaded and executed by the startup process is a secondary boot program, the purpose of which is to load the standalone program. 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. Openboot security is discussed more in the section openboot security, later in this chapter. Failing to specify a path causes the system to try and boot from the net. I have a working solaris 10 box whose boot disk is using zfs.
Its interesting to know that, if you use boot net, rather than boot net install, it will give you a minimenu on whether you want a. On sparc platforms, the boot prom is used to boot a sparc based system and to modify boot parameters. Modifying boot parameters oracle solaris administration. Ads are annoying but they help keep this website running.
How to boot from the detached mirror disk of zfs boot environment. First of all, figure out your boot disk, if you have many disks, theres a few way of doing this first method boot from cdrom2. On solaris sparc booted with boot cdrom s it is possible to setup network interface and mount nfs. It is continue reading solaris boot system into single user mode.
Openboot ok prompt not available after solaris os has started. My main development server is dead, i cant even boot off the cdrom, it powers up, acts like it is starting the boot process but then says cannot find boot device. The method outlined below was completed on a 2012 macbook air, but it should work on other models as well. Normal boot the boot command without any arguments will boot the system into multiuser mode by default. There was no solaris installed and all i had was ok prompt. Below is a screen shot of mirrored boot disk under veritas volume manager. But if on the other hand, youd rather just update the openboot networkbootarguments setting on each server, then its good to know you still can do that sort of thing. Learn to access, display and set sun openboot parameters on a sun servers and. Installing solaris from a usb disk oracle the good, the. How to install windows on a mac with boot camp refind is a boot manager that will allow you to choose between mac os x, linux, windows, and other operating systems when you boot your computer. The boot prom is used to boot a sparc based system and to modify boot parameters. Ive done the search here on this site and saw the other posts, but at the ok prompt it wont even let me. But with a cddvd burnt as multisession, you could boot from it and save your settings back to the cddvd that would be picked up and used on the next boot.
Solaris installation on a sparc t3 from a remote cdrom iso. How to create a triple boot system macos, windows, ubuntu on a macbook. Is there a way of installing leopard on a snow leopard and xp bootcamped on a macbook pro as a serperate os. Use the solaris os halt 1m command to halt the domain. Using the osx boot menu, nothing showed up other then my main partition and the recovery partition and when i enabled refit boot the linux option showed up, but when i selected the option, a black screen told me no bootabe device found, insert. Ok, another blog post to remind myself and maybe somebody else, who knows. The primary task of the openboot firmware is to boot the operating system either from a mass storage device or from the network. Solaris boot system into single user mode nixcraft. I am unsure of if the macbook pro has the option to boot from a flash drive. Find answers to solaris 10 cdrom boot from the expert community at experts exchange. How to identify the boot device primary and alternate in.
Commonly used open boot prompt obp commands okbanner. Debugging solaris using open boot prom debugging solaris using open boot prom, 171226. The boot campinstalled boot menu will recognize the ubuntu installation as windows, but will boot ubuntu normally regardless. How to boot from the detached mirror disk of zfs boot. When you deliberately place the system under firmware control in order to execute.
Yes, from time to time i install other unix oss just in order to stay plugged in. This was created using a 2008 macbook running max os x 10. At the openboot prom, the operating system is not yet running. If your macbook pro has an intel processor and a cd or dvd optical drive, you should be able to boot puppy from it. Macwhiz, i hope you dont mind me asking, but why you would run solaris on a macbook or mbp in favor of mac os x, gnulinux, freebsd, etc. It is nearly impossible to break in without sending the cpu to sun to have the prom reset. Pressing the keys l1 and a or stop a, at the same time will bring you to the openboot system. Use the systems mac address instead of network cards mac address. How to select a different startup disk apple support. Usb and mac on this download page, it gives a series of command line instructions to make a usb key which the macbook will boot into ubuntu from.
The solaris boot command when used with various optional parameters will change the booting behavior. You will see the display type b boot, c continued, or n. Also, to allow openboot prom to boot from the first and the second disk, you need to update the. To reach the ok prompt from the solaris os, you must first halt the domain. The a option will ask for configuration information such as where to find the system file, where to mount root, and even override the name of the kernel itself. I agree with holding down the option key while you start up. Booting a system how to perform system boot and shutdown. After installing in uefi text mode solaris will work under uefi in text mode. Browse other questions tagged boot solaris or ask your own question. Id like to add another hard drive and mirror this boot drive. I would like to boot windows every time unless i specifically tell it otherwise but if i mark the win partition active, i lose the boot menu the s10 partition needs to be active. The answer is to boot system from cddvd then on an menu choose option 6.
If that is an openboot, you can boot from cdrom with. I decided i no longer see the sense of burning a dvd to do this. You cannot reach the ok prompt from the solaris os see openboot ok prompt not available after solaris os has started. 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. The openboot command reference manual describes the openboot. In solaris 10,we will use lu commands like lucreate,luactivate,lumount,luumount and lustatus. Please explain solaris boot sequence in detail unix. If true, network drivers use their own mac address, not the server mac address. When i run the command i believe is correct below i get an error. It is used to boot the system it can be used with follwoing options. One thing you can do is boot cdrom aw and the cdrom will ask a which media you wish to boot from. Bios boot priority options not available microsoft community. The openboot programmable readonly memory prom user interface is a commandline interface. Solaris 9 system startup and shutdown introduction.
Starting from the ground up, a new caa contourfit last was used that maintains the heelhugging security from their traditional baa last while offering a more natural, relaxed toe box. How can i repair partition map after attempting to dual. The boot menu lets me select between the windows partition and the solaris partitions but it defaults to the s10 one. If you see a message that your security settings do not allow this mac to use an external startup disk, check the external boot setting in startup. The common syntax of boot command is solaris sparc system is. In order to use the usb stick as a boot media, you will need to have the openboot version higher than 4. If you forget the password, the system is unable to boot. The blade1500 is modern enough to boot s10 just fine. It displays the system information such as the model name, the boot prom version, the memory, the ethernet addresses, and the host identification number id. Up to this point, this chapter describes the openboot diagnostic utilities, variables, and parameters. But in solaris 11, all the tasks will be carried out using beadm command. Describes tasks for booting and shutting down an oracle solaris system.
Multiple partitions with boot camp teh no macrumors forums. Openboot prom obp is firmware used on sun sparc and apple. You may also be interested in the solaris ready usb faq. System reboot if autoboot is not set to true rebooted system returns to ok prompt which is openboot prompt 2.
I tried installing kali linux in a separate partition on my macbook, but after installation was completed, i was unable to boot back into mac os displays a prohibited sign. This is when the install is on the solaris machine. Solaris 10 x86 boot menu configuration oracle community. Puppy linux discussion forum view topic is there a. This boot option is new in solaris 10 and works in conjunction with the solaris 10 service management facility. How to perform system boot and shutdown procedures for solaris 10. How to use os x boot options to troubleshoot your mac. However, there is another thing im tring to figure out. Specifically, i didnt stumble across any documentation that led me to use the rcdrom device in the openboot prom obp, aka the ok prompt here is the recipe. I think everything went wrong when i let it install grub, which may be responsible for the messed up partition map. When using the dhcp option to boot over network, the prom broadcasts the mac. In order to do that i need to find the mac address of that interface, preferably with least amount of hassle.
You enter this interface by shutting down the solaris operating system by typing init 0 at the solaris command line, and pressing enter. How to identify the boot device primary and alternate in solaris. Below this there are several options on the left hand side. General openboot prom obp commands shrubbery networks. It provides also a user the way to load solaris kernel from nonboot hard disk drive, select one of multiple solaris installations, or boot solaris across a network all that dca booted from floppy can do. Another thing to try is to boot solaris 11 express. But still, you need to know whats there in the first place. When this happens, you can troubleshoot your mac by using boot options to run an apple hardware test, or booting. Today i had a need to jumpstart sunfire v240 using network interface in one of its pci slots. The openboot firmware is not available and might be removed from memory once the solaris os starts. Determining ethernet mac address from open boot prompt. The behavior of the boot program can be controlled by the argument string, if one is passed to the boot command on the command line. This is a necessary condition for the system to boot from the usb.
I wanted to install solaris 11 express on a sparc t31 server that was located in california. Lius blog as an inspiration, but the following is what i have found worked well to boot an install image located on a usb disk. If you want to use xfs for your root partition, create a separate boot partition with ext2 or. Mactelsupportteamappleintelinstallation community help wiki.
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