Chapter 6 Shutting Down and Booting a System Topics

This section provides instructions for shutting down and booting systems running the Solaris release. This section contains these chapters.

Chapter 7, Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview)	Provides an overview and guidelines for shutting down and booting a system.
Chapter 8, Run Levels and Boot Files (Tasks)	Provides information about run levels and boot files.
Chapter 9, Shutting Down a System (Tasks)	Provides step-by-step instructions for shutting down a system.
Chapter 10, SPARC: Booting a System (Tasks)	Provides step-by-step instructions for booting a SPARC based system.
Chapter 11, IA: Booting a System (Tasks)	Provides step-by-step instructions for booting an IA based system.
Chapter 12, The Boot Process (Reference)	Provides a high-level overview of the boot process, including a description of the platform-specific hardware used to boot SPARC based and IA based systems.