Solaris Volume Manager (SVM): How to Control Disk Selection when Booting a x86 System/Server (Doc ID 1482250.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 10, 2022

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This article describes the details of the x86 boot process, in particular as they relate to the choice of which disk is accessed during the various boot stages. The information in the article is based on Solaris 10 releases, beginning with Solaris 10 10/08 (Update 6), that use the findroot GRUB menu command. The root GRUB menu command can also be used. To use the root command, use the syntax described in Table 15-1 in "Chapter 15 x86: GRUB Based Booting" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration, which you can view in HTML format or download in PDF format.  The findroot command was introduced in Solaris 10 10/08 (Update 6) and requires that release or later. The root command can be used with any version of Solaris that uses GRUB.

The information is relevant to configurations that mirror the operating system (OS) with Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), but it is also of value in general to understand how an x86 system steps through the stages of the boot process. That is the main focus of the article.
 

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