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Tips for Troubleshooting Solaris Boot Issues (Doc ID 1451404.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 21, 2024

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 10 and later
Oracle 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

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