Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
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Preface

Part I Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview)

3.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Planning)

Solaris Live Upgrade Requirements

Upgrading a System With Packages or Patches

Guidelines for Creating File Systems With the lucreate Command

Guidelines for Selecting Slices for File Systems

Customizing a New Boot Environment's Content

Synchronizing Files Between Boot Environments

x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu

Solaris Live Upgrade Character User Interface

4.  Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)

5.  Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade (Tasks)

6.  Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)

7.  Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)

8.  x86: Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File (Tasks)

9.  Upgrading the Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed

10.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Examples)

11.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Command Reference)

Part II Appendices

A.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

B.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

Glossary

Index

x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu

Starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release, a GRUB boot menu provides an optional method of switching between boot environments. The GRUB menu is an alternative to activating with the luactivate command.

Task

Information

To activate a boot environment with the GRUB menu

x86: To Activate a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu

To fall back to the original boot environment with a GRUB menu

x86: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu

For overview and planning information for GRUB

Chapter 6, GRUB Based Booting for Solaris Installation, in Solaris Express Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade

For a complete GRUB overview and system administration tasks

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
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