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Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris 11.1 Systems     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Booting and Shutting Down a System (Overview)

2.  x86: Administering the GRand Unified Bootloader (Tasks)

3.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

4.  Booting a System (Tasks)

5.  Booting a System From the Network (Tasks)

6.  Troubleshooting Booting a System (Tasks)

Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives

How to List Contents of the Boot Archive

Managing the boot-archive SMF Service

How to Enable or Disable the boot-archive SMF Service

How to Clear a Failed Automatic Boot Archive Update by Manually Updating the Boot Archive

x86: How to Clear a Failed Automatic Boot Archive Update on a System That Does Not Support Fast Reboot

Shutting Down and Booting a System for Recovery Purposes

SPARC: How to Stop a System for Recovery Purposes

x86: How to Stop and Reboot a System for Recovery Purposes

How to Boot to a Single-User State to Resolve a Bad root Shell or Password Problem

How to Boot From Media to Resolve an Unknown root Password

x86: How to Boot From Media to Resolve a Problem With the GRUB Configuration That Prevents the System From Booting

Forcing a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System

SPARC: How to Force a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System

x86: How to Force a Crash Dump and Reboot of the System

Booting a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled

SPARC: How to Boot a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled

x86: How to Boot a System With the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) Enabled

x86: Troubleshooting Issues With Fast Reboot

x86: Debugging Early Panics That Might Occur

x86: Conditions Under Which Fast Reboot Might Not Work

Troubleshooting Issues With Booting and the Service Management Facility

Index

x86: Troubleshooting Issues With Fast Reboot

The following sections describe how to identify and resolve some common issues that you might encounter with the Fast Reboot feature of Oracle Solaris on x86 platforms.

The following information is provided in this section:

If you need to manually update the Oracle Solaris boot archive on an x86 based system that does not support the Fast Reboot feature, see x86: How to Clear a Failed Automatic Boot Archive Update on a System That Does Not Support Fast Reboot.

x86: Debugging Early Panics That Might Occur

Because the boot-config service has dependencies on the multiuser milestone, users who need to debug early panics can patch a global variable, fastreboot_onpanic in the /etc/system file, as shown in the following example:

# echo "set fastreboot_onpanic=1" >> /etc/system
# echo "fastreboot_onpanic/W" | mdb -kw

x86: Conditions Under Which Fast Reboot Might Not Work

The following are possible conditions under which the Fast Reboot feature might not work:

For more information, see the following man pages: