Tips for Troubleshooting Solaris Boot Issues
(Doc ID 1451404.1)
Last updated on FEBRUARY 04, 2025
Applies to:
Solaris Operating System - Version 10 and laterOracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Purpose
This document provides tips you can use when troubleshooting Solaris boot problems.
Troubleshooting Steps
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In this Document
| Purpose |
| Troubleshooting Steps |
| Preliminary questions to ask to understand the system configuration and to identify where in the boot process it is failing or generating errors |
| Understanding boot terminology |
| Understanding the Solaris boot phases |
| Accessing the system console |
| Troubleshooting low level boot phase issues - Boot PROM - POST (SPARC) / BIOS or UEFI (x86) and Hardware issues |
| Troubleshooting Boot program phase issues |
| ZFS bootblock issue (Solaris 10 U6 / kernel patch 137137-09 and later and Solaris 11) |
| UFS bootblock issue (Solaris 10 and earlier only) |
| Troubleshooting boot issues in the init and svc.startd boot phases |
| Rebuilding the boot-archive |
| ZFS - Problems accessing zpools during boot |
| References |