- Introduction
- Booting a System
- The OpenBoot Environment
- The OpenBoot Architecture
- The OpenBoot Interface
- Getting Help in OpenBoot
- PROM Device Tree (Full Device Pathnames)
- OpenBoot NVRAM
- OpenBoot Security
- OpenBoot Diagnostics
- OpenBoot PROM Versions
- Booting a System
- The Kernel
- The init Phase
- System Shutdown
- Summary
- Suggested Readings and Resources
Suggested Readings and Resources
For more information on the OpenBoot environment and the boot process, refer to Inside Solaris 9 by Bill Calkins, 2002, New Riders.
For more information on the Service Management Facility (SMF), refer to the "Managing Services" section of the Solaris 10 System Administration Guide: Basic Administration, 2005, Sun Microsystems, Part Number Part No: 817-1985-11. This manual is available online at docs.sun.com.
For more information on the Solaris kernel and tuning the Solaris kernel parameters, refer to the following publications:
- The Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual, 2005, Sun Microsystems, Part number 817-0404-10. This manual is available online at docs.sun.com.
- Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet, by Adrian Cockroft, 1998, Prentice Hall.
- Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture, by Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall, 2000, Prentice Hall.
- Resource Management, by Richard McDougall, Adrian Cockcroft, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, Tom Bialaski, and Everet Hoogendoorn, 1999, Prentice Hall.