Openboot nvram how to perform system boot and shutdown. Drawing on nearly 30 years of sys admin experience, david rhodes and dominic butler cover every facet of solaris oe system administration, from simple user management on standalone servers to building and managing a fully networked enterprise environment. Boot into a boot environment from sparc boot prom ok boot z rpoolroot solaris 05032012. Since were upgrading from solaris 9 to solaris 10, well be upgrading from ufs to ufs file systems. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
Mar 22, 20 solaris open boot prom ok promptcontents 1 open boot user interface 2 boot commands 3 navigate around the device tree 4 alias commands 5 emergency stop commands 6 configuration variable commands 7 some common used configuration variables 8 open boot commands 9 how to run post 10 how to use obdiagopen boot user interfacehow to get to the ok promptyou can shutdown the system. Hi after doing a live upgrade from solaris 10 update 8 to solaris 10 update 9 the alternate boot environment i created is no longer bootable. From solaris 10 10 08 update6 bootblk was changed, corresponding zfs boot. Modifying boot parameters on sparc platforms, the boot prom is used to boot a sparc based system and to modify boot parameters.
For a complete list of prom commands, see the eeprom8 man page. Also, since we are upgrading from one disk to another, we will copy all filesystems from c1t0d0 to c1t1d0 no filesystems will be shared. Modifying boot parameters oracle solaris administration. If you cannot boot the system, you need to copy bootblk on root, not madia. For example, you might want to reset the device from which to boot, change the default boot file or kernel, or run hardware diagnostics before bringing the system to a. Installing solaris express 11 on a usb stick oracle community. Before you can boot oracle solaris from usb disk, you have to install oracle solaris on the disk first. The boot command without any arguments will boot the system into multiuser mode by default. Live upgrade allows the system admin to upgrade or patch a running system with the only downtime being the server reboot once the upgrade or patch is complete. The boot prom will attempt to open each successive device specifier in the list beginning with the first. Executing boot prom commands identify boot programmable readonly memory prom fundamentals use basic boot prom commands identify the systems boot device create and remove custom device aliases. The boot disk are two mirrored disk with solaris volume manager.
A host running solaris 10 fails to boot with a message on the console showing the device devvxconfig is already open and the host returns to the open boot prom. Using the smpatch utility and sun connection for automatic updates and patches. Graceful reset of the control domain using the ilom reset command from the prompt in the control domain, type. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. When viewed via the devalias command at the prom level, they are listed in the form of the alias name followed by the full hardware path to the device. The most common openboot probe commands are probescsi and probescsiall, which are used to obtain a free open scsi target id number before adding a tape unit, a cdrom drive, a disk drive, or any other scsi peripheral. If you can boot up off of the dvdcd, and get to a command line or terminal without affecting your previous installation, you can do the following. Jul 21, 2018 here is the procedure to upgrade the kernel patches in solaris 10 with zfs filesystem using live upgrade method. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris. Feb 03, 2006 then, it issues the resetall command to reset the system and then boots the system from bootdisk by using the boot bootdisk command. This facility enables you to patch solaris installation commands and other minirootspecific commands.
Chapter 1, overview, describes the user interface and other main features of the. How to manually update the boot archive by using the bootadm command. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. The openboot prom device aliases disk and net are not created for oracle vm server for sparc disks and logical domains to which no network is assigned. Table 41 procedures for accessing the ok prompt access method what to do graceful shutdown of the solaris os from a shell or command tool window, type an appropriate command for example, the init 0 or uadmin 2 0 commands as described in solaris system administration documentation. For more solaris commands interview questions click here. Organization theopenboot command reference is organized as follows. It covers all basic workstation administration functions, with full handson experience at all stages. You also use the boot prom if you want to run hardware diagnostics before bringing the system to a multiuser state.
From xcp 2210 onward, at the time of starting up the openboot prom, the following message is output before the openboot prom banner is. Suunn eooppennbboooott pprroomm quuiicckk crreeffeerreenncee. Solaris 9 system startup and shutdown the openboot architecture solaris 9 system startup and shutdown the openboot architecture. The nscfg commands allow you to import the content of legacy files into the smf. One of the main hardware differences between sparc systems that run solaris and pc systems that run linux or microsoft windows is that sparc systems have an openboot prom monitor program, which can be used to modify firmware settings prior to booting.
Network booting background network booting can follow either of two paths, rarpbootparams or dhcp dynamic host configuration protocol, depending on the functions available in and configuration of the prom. How to manually update the boot archive on a solaris volume manager raid1 mirrored root partition. If your os is update5 before, it may be failed for boot to copy bootblk of install mediaupdate6 later. For examples in this book, im using openboot version 3. Students will learn about the open boot prom, how to utilize patches, manipulate user accounts, manage system security, configure filesystems, utilize the mount and umount commands, backup and restore the system, set up remote networking, and manage the print queue. Enter help command name or help categoryname for more help use only the first word of a category description examples. There can be different way in which we may need to install solaris 10. Install and remove patches and patch clusters executing boot prom commands. How to set bootdevice with luxadm command in solaris. Using the openboot prom booting and shutting down oracle. For example, you might want to reset the device from which to boot, change the default boot file or kernel, or run hardware diagnostics before bringing the system to a multiuser state. Openboot prom versions how to perform system boot and.
Identify boot programmable readonly memory prom fundamentals. Mar 11, 2008 registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. The main purpose of prom chip is to configure the system hw and to set boot priorities. The server hanging is due to the ethernet cards taking its mac address from the obp open boot prom now the hub has a problem in routing packets, as two ports hold the same mac address. Openboot diagnostics how to perform system boot and. With the release of solaris 10 10 08, it is possible to boot from a zfsmanaged pool. It provides a user interface and firmware utility commands known as forth command set. Solaris operating environment boot camp puts the answers right at your fingertips. Liveupgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 sysadmins journey.
This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Jan 26, 2016 it provides a user interface and firmware utility commands known as forth command set. If i understood correctly, ok prompt can use dd command. Solaris 10 ldom kernel patching using live upgrade. If a filename is not explicitly specified, either on the boot command line or in the boot file nvram variable, boot chooses an appropriate default filename. This procedure demonstrates how to easily use the luxadm command to set the boot device open boot prom obp parameter from a system booted from cdrom or in single user mode.
Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command. How to locate the active grub menu and list current menu entries. On a sun workstation or server, you simply do a boot cdrom s at the open boot prom obp, but there is no such thing on the x86 boxen. Basic concepts dealing with patches, firmware upgrades and open boot prom maintenance are also. Solaris open boot prom ok promptcontents 1 open boot user interface 2 boot commands 3 navigate around the device tree 4 alias commands 5 emergency stop commands 6 configuration variable commands 7 some common used configuration variables 8 open boot commands 9 how to run post 10 how to use obdiagopen boot user interfacehow to get to the ok. I used it for several times but i destroyed since i needed some data to copy in th usb, its fairly simple but the only constraint is it can be done from already installed solaris 11 express.
How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris live upgrade is an excellent way to manage solaris operating system upgrades and patches. Solaris 10 system administration training course part 1. You can configure various functions related to starting oracle solaris by defining openboot prom environment variables. Red hat enterprise linux to oracle solaris 11 comparison. When securitymode in openboot prom environment variables is set to command or full, and at least 1 and no more than 8 viewable character strings are set for securitypassword, the openboot prom security mode is enabled and a password is required for executing commands or performing operations. Greetings friends, i would like to clone the systemroot hard disk with dd. This chapter provides a description of the openboot environment, the prom, nvram, and the kernel. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it. It seems that one option used is to break the mirror prior to the patch. Only devices that are powered on will be located, so you need to make sure everything is turned on. A host running solaris 10 fails to boot with a message on. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary.
Migrating from oracle solaris 10 jumpstart to automated installer migration of oracle solaris 10 and earlier jumpstart infrastructure can be aided with. Solaris 10 system admin part i sol100 5 day this 5day course covers the essential administration tasks for sun system administrators. Solution why does a host running solaris 10 fail to boot after applying a patch when the root disk is encapsulated. This boot option is new in solaris 10 and works in conjunction with the solaris 10 service management facility. Open boot prom toolkit users guide,part number 800527910. Managing software patches on the solaris 10 os describe the fundamentals of patch administration install and remove patches and patch clusters. Switch the hardware power on, boot via the obp open boot prom. Suunn eooppennbboooott pprroomm quuiicckk crreeffeerreenncee controlccaarrdd last revised 03012002 prob obp primary tasks. Graceful shutdown of the solaris os from a shell or command tool window, type an. Monitor prompt commands boot, probescsi, probeide, testnet, devalias etc. To execute disk boot or network boot by specifying the device alias disk or net, set the device aliases disk and net by using the openboot prom nvalias command. Upgrading solaris installations using live upgrade is demonstrated. Update openboot prom from cd page 2 the unix and linux. Debugging solaris using open boot prom debugging solaris using open boot prom, 171226.
Graceful shutdown of the solaris os from a shell or command tool window, type an appropriate command for example, the init 0 or uadmin 2 0 commands as described in solaris system administration documentation. The first 3 chapters discuss the issues involved in choosing and building a solaris boot disk. Below is the output of the update tool which was run from the flash. May 30, 2011 this boot option is new in solaris 10 and works in conjunction with the solaris 10 service management facility. In order to achieve this setup we must supply unique mac addresses to any extra cards added to the server. Oracle solaris 11 includes ips, a new networkcentric package management framework with automatic dependency checking. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. How to perform system boot and shutdown procedures for solaris 10. Solaris 9 system startup and shutdown the openboot architecture solaris 9 system startup and shutdown. Forcing solaris into ok prompt open boot user interface.
Getting help in openboot how to perform system boot and. Installing the latest version of live upgrade from the update 9 iso. Update openboot prom from cd page 4 the unix and linux. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. For all releases of solaris 10 and solaris 11, a value of of 0x0 means that there will be an attempt to use acpi if it is available on the system. Also with that solaris release, the solaris live upgrade tools have been modified to work in a zfs environment. Using the bootadm command to manage the boot archives. For future patches i want to apply the patches and if they fail to boot then have a backup prior to the patch to boot to. The openboot prom monitor is based on the forth programming language, and can be used to run forth programs that perform the following functions. It is backwards compatible with sysv init scripts, and provides features, such as parallel startup of system services at boot time, ondemand activation of daemons, support for system state snapshots, or dependencybased service control logic. They can be used in place of the full obp hardware path at the ok prompt. If we install from scratch, it is called initial installation, or we can upgrade solaris 7 or higher version tosolaris 10. The a option will ask for configuration information such as where to find the system file, where to mount root, and even override the name of the kernel itself.
We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. A system and service manager that replaces upstart as the default init system. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. The boot prom is used to boot a sparc based system and to modify boot parameters such as the boot device or the default boot file or kernel. In order to create our new boot environment, we will use the lucreate command. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. I need it to force my jumpstart to use the ethernet card of my server v880 instead of my fiber card gem0.
Performing diagnostics on hardware devices by using the diag command. The command will change the boot device setting at the os level and at the same time, change the boot. Hello, i have a sun v880 that i got from ebay for cheap as a way to to learn solaris and sun hardware in general. Solaris 10 boot archive question hi, im new to solaris 10 and im trying to learn compiling and installing software. Sa200 system administration for the solaris 10 os part 1. Also see appendix c in this manual for a list of unsupported commands. Command to determine the version of the open boot prom on the system. Testing network connectivity by using the watchnet command.