Booting into the bare metal interface

When performing a bare metal recovery, please perform the following steps to boot into the Bare Metal recovery interface via the network.

1        On the Jump Start boot server, copy the sparc.miniroot.<hostname> file as sparc.miniroot (save the original sparc.miniroot file before performing this step).

2        On the protected Solaris server, at the Open Firmware prompt type:

boot net

The Solaris server boots into the Bare Metal recovery interface and is ready for performing the restore.