Oracle SPARC User Manual

Enable or Disable Automatic Booting (Oracle Solaris)
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“printenv Output” on page 48
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“Enable or Disable Automatic Booting (Oracle Solaris)” on page 46
Enable or Disable Automatic Booting (Oracle
Solaris)
While running Oracle Solaris, use this procedure to configure OpenBoot so that a host reset or
power on either attempts to boot automatically, or not. This change is permanent but only takes
effect after a host reset.
1.
Log in to Oracle Solaris as a user with root privileges.
2.
Set the OpenBoot auto-boot? parameter.
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true – (Default) The host automatically attempts to boot from the devices specified in boot-
device.
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false – The host does not automatically boot. You can boot manually.
For example:
# eeprom auto-boot?=false
3.
Verify the change.
# eeprom auto-boot?
auto-boot?=false
4.
Reset the host.
# init 6
The host resets. After initialization, the host attempts to boot or not based on your
configuration.
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“Enable or Disable Automatic Booting (OpenBoot)” on page 45
46 SPARC and Netra SPARC T5 Series Servers Administration Guide • August 2016

Oracle SPARC Specifications

General

Operating System	Oracle Solaris
Virtualization	Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Processor	SPARC
Threads per Core	8
Memory Type	DDR4
Storage	SAS, SATA
Security Features	Cryptographic Acceleration