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Solaris 10 SPARC Boot Process Overview by Mohaideen is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The Solaris boot process involves 5 phases - Boot PROM, Boot Program, Kernel Initialization, Init, and svc.startd. During the Boot PROM phase, the PROM performs hardware checks and loads the primary boot program. This program then loads the kernel and ufsboot program. The kernel is initialized, loads modules, and starts the init process. Init uses /etc/inittab to set the run level, then svc.startd starts scripts in /etc/rc?.d to start and stop services as defined for that run level.

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Mohaideen

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