Sun Microsystems 10 manual Booting a zone, Boot arguments in zones

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5.3. Lifecycle management

5.3.1. Booting a zone

[dd]zoneadm -z <zone> boot starts up a zone, mounts the file systems, initializes the network interfaces, sets the resource controls and starts the service manager of the zone. When the zone is first started, as with Solaris re-installation, all smf service manifests are imported and the initial smf repository for the zone is created.

global# zlogin -C zone1

[Connected to zone 'zone1' console] [NOTICE: Zone booting up]

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Hostname: zone1

zone1 console login:

In addition, the directory <zonepath>/dev is created, which contains all devices that the zone can access.

global# ls	/zones/zone1/dev
arp	dtrace	msglog	rdsk	syscon	ticlts	vt00
conslog	dtremote	null	rmt		sysevent	ticots
zconsole
console	fb0	poll	sad	sysmsg	ticotsord	zero
cpu	fd	pool	stderr	systty	tty	zfs
crypto	kstat	ptmx	stdin	tcp	udp
cryptoadm	log	pts	stdout	tcp6	udp6
dsk	logindmux	random	swap	term	urandom

5.3.2. Boot arguments in zones

[dd]The zone configuration, just as the command zoneadm -z <zone> boot , can be extended by boot arguments (bootargs). Thus for example a singular boot process with detailed information on troubleshooting, or booting the zone into single-user mode, is possible.

global# zoneadm -z keetonga boot -s global# zlogin -C keetonga [Connected to zone 'keetonga' console]

[NOTICE: Zone booting up]

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Booting to milestone "milestone/single-user:default". Hostname: keetonga

Requesting System Maintenance Mode

SINGLE USER MODE

Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):

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