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Investigating the Solaris OPENBOOT

PublisherPunjabi University
Format70.5KB WORDDate added25 Jan 2005
Topics Sun Solaris
Downloads2165 popular

The Solaris operating system gets the jumpstart for its booting from a hardware-level interface called the OpenBoot PROM or OBP for short. OpenBoot at its heart has an interactive command interpreter with a varied set of functions. OBP is a firmware, which is stored in the socketed startup PROM of the computer and consists of two parts, the PROM and the NVRAM.

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