- Assume the root role.See How to Use Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Security Services.
- Bring the system to the ok PROM prompt.
# init 0
- (Optional) Display a list of available boot environments by using the boot command with the -L option.
- To boot a specified entry, type the number of the entry and press Return:
Select environment to boot: [1 - 2]:
- To boot the system, follow the instructions that are displayed on the screen.
To boot the selected entry, invoke: boot [<root-device>] -Z rpool/ROOT/boot-environment
ok boot -Z rpool/ROOT/boot-environment
For example:
# boot -Z rpool/ROOT/zfs2BE
- After the system has booted, verify the active boot environment.
# prtconf -vp | grep whoami
- (Optional) To display the boot path for the active boot environment, type the following command:
# prtconf -vp | grep bootpath
- (Optional) To determine whether the correct boot environment was booted, type the following command:
# df -lk
Example 4-10 SPARC: Booting From an Alternate Boot Environment
This example shows how to use the boot -Z command to boot from an alternate boot environment on a SPARC based system.
# init 0
root@t2k-brm-28:~# svc.startd: The system is coming down. Please wait.
svc.startd: 126 system services are now being stopped.
Jul 3 22:11:33 t2k-brm-28 syslogd: going down on signal 15
svc.startd: Killing user processes.
umount: /home busy
Jul 3 22:11:50 The system is down. Shutdown took 23 seconds.
syncing file systems... done
Program terminated
{1c} ok boot -L
SC Alert: Host System has Reset
Sun Fire T200, No Keyboard
Copyright (c) 1998, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.30.4.d, 16256 MB memory available, Serial #74139288.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:6b:46:98, Host ID: 846b4698.
Boot device: /pci@780/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0/disk@0,0:a File and args: -L
1 Oracle Solaris 11.1 SPARC
2 s11u1_backup
3 s11u1_backup2
Select environment to boot: [ 1 - 3 ]: 3
To boot the selected entry, invoke:
boot [<root-device>] -Z rpool/ROOT/s11u1_backup2
Program terminated
{0} ok boot -Z rpool/ROOT/s11u1_backup2
SC Alert: Host System has Reset
Sun Fire T200, No Keyboard
Copyright (c) 1998, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.30.4.d, 16256 MB memory available, Serial #74139288.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:6b:46:98, Host ID: 846b4698.
Boot device: /pci@780/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0/disk@0,0:a \
File and args: -Z rpool/ROOT/s11u1_backup2
SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.1 64-bit
Copyright (c) 1983, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
WARNING: consconfig: cannot find driver for
screen device /pci@780/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/TSI,mko@0
Loading smf(5) service descriptions: Loading smf(5)
service descriptions: Hostname: system-28
.
system-28 console login: Jul 3 22:39:05 system-28
x86: How to Boot From an Alternate Operating System or Boot Environment
- Assume the root role.See How to Use Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Security Services.
- Perform a standard reboot the system.
# reboot -p
- When the GRUB menu is displayed, navigate to the alternate boot environment or operating system that you want to boot.
- To boot from the alternate operating system, press Control-X. If you have a system with UEFI firmware, and you are not using a serial console, pressing F10 also boots the alternate operating system.
Example 4-11 Booting From an Alternate Boot Environment by Using the reboot Command
You can boot an alternate boot entry by using the reboot command specifying the boot entry number, as shown in the following example:
# bootadm list-menu the location of the boot loader configuration files is: /rpool/boot/grub default 1 timeout 30 0 s11.1.backup 1 Oracle Solaris 11.1 B14 # reboot 1 Apr 23 16:27:34 system-04 reboot: initiated by userx on /dev/consoleTerminated x4100m2-brm-04% syncing file systems... done SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.1 64-bit Copyright (c) 1983, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Hostname: system-04 system-04 console login: