Storix Software SBAdmin Solaris System Recovery Guide - Manual (Page 20)

Storix System Backup Administrator 20 Version 8.2 Solaris System Recovery Guide
4. Booting to the System Installation
Process
Booting the Various System Types
This section will provide general guidelines for booting a system to the Installation and Maintenance Menu ,
used to install a system from a System Backup . Note that the steps differ widely between systems and new
systems are being introduced frequently. If you are not familiar with the process of booting your system from
different media, you should refer to your system documentation for detailed instructions.
To begin the system recovery process, the client system must be booted from SBAdmin Boot Media . This may
be a local bootable cdrom or a network boot image storied on a boot server. In any case, the remainder of the
installation process will be the same.
The instructions for booting the system vary for each boot type and also differ greatly depending on the type of
the machine to be booted. SBAdmin supports Solaris 9 and 10 on Intel-based 32 and 64-bit systems which use
BIOS firmware, and Solaris 9 and 10 on SPARC systems, which use OpenBoot firmware. The exact details of
how to boot each can vary with each model of hardware and version of firmware.
Although specific instructions on booting the systems from the installation media are not described here, here
are some hints to help get you started:
Booting to the System Installation Process
CDROM
If using BIOS, your system BIOS must be configured to allow booting from CDROM. If your firmware
(BIOS/OpenBoot) attempts to boot from a hard disk before booting from CDROM, you will need to change
this in case there is already a bootable hard disk in the system. Typically the BIOS can be accessed on
most Intel-based (x86) systems by pressing the
Delete key immediately after the display messages begin
to appear. Once your BIOS is setup to boot from the correct media, just insert the CDROM and turn on or
reset the system.
If using OpenBoot (OB), you can specify which device to boot from at the OpenBoot Prompt (OBP). To
access the OBP, at system initialization (soon after power-on), select the key combination "stop-a". This
will prevent the system from booting to the previously configured boot device so that you can interactively
select which device to boot from. You can get a list of devices to enter at the OBP by using the devalias
command. For cdrom, you will enter the following at the OBP prompt:
ok> boot cdrom
Hard Disk
To install from a hard disk configured as a system recovery boot disk, you must select to boot from the disk
within the BIOS or OpenBoot options. Typically the BIOS can be accessed on most Intel-based (x86)
systems by pressing the
Delete key immediately after the display messages begin to appear.
Assuming your firmware is setup to boot by default from the correct media, just turn on or reset the system.
The remainder of the boot process will complete without further interaction.