About The Grub Menu; Before You Begin - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4450 Installation Manual

About the GRUB Menu

Solaris uses a GRUB boot loader with a GRUB menu. When you start the Solaris OS,
a GRUB menu appears. The GRUB menu allows you to select to direct output to
either the serial port or video port.
If you do not select an output within 10 seconds at the boot menu, default
redirection of the Solaris OS occurs, and the system boots using the default output
(serial management port-ttyb). Serial redirection requires a connection to the serial
management port. See
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Before You Begin

Before you configure the preinstalled Solaris OS, you must do the following:
1. Perform initial configuration of the SP, and determine the server's network
settings. See
2. Gather the information that you will need to configure the server. See
"Installation Worksheet" on page
3. After these steps are complete, you can configure the preinstalled Solaris OS. See
"Configuring the Solaris OS" on page
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"Determining the LOM Service Processor IP Address" on
and "Method 2: Using the Serial Connection" on page
"Setting Up the Sun Fire X4450 Server" on page
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