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What is the boot process in solaris 9?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 2 Last Update: November 07, 2007     Asked by: hgaurh 
  
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March 14, 2007 05:17:25   #1  
hgaurh Member Since: March 2006   Contribution: 13    

RE: What is the boot process in solaris 9?
Boot process in solaris can be divided in to four parts.


1. Boot Eprom
2. Boot Program Phase
3. Kernal Initialising
4. Init

 
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November 07, 2007 03:15:10   #2  
jaykanthk Member Since: November 2007   Contribution: 15    

RE: What is the boot process in solaris 9?
There are 4 phases in Boot process1. Boot PROM2. Boot Program3. Kernel Intialization.4. INIT Phases.
 
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