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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By : Philip P. Brown
Book Image

Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By: Philip P. Brown

Overview of this book

Oracle Solaris provides innovative, built-in features that deliver breakthrough high availability, advanced security, efficiency, and industry-leading scalability and performance to help businesses grow. "Oracle Solaris 11: First Look" covers the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 and how these new features and improvements will make it easier to deploy services to the enterprise while improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership.This book starts with coverage of Image Packaging System and the new installation methods. It then moves swiftly to network configuration. The book also includes some security features and improvements.  
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Solaris 11: First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
IPS Package Reference
New ACL Permissions and Abbreviations
Index

Fast reboot


Solaris 11 is capable of doing a fast reboot, skipping the power-on style self tests that have traditionally accompanied a reboot.

On x86 machines, this will automatically happen if you use the reboot command. To force a full test cycle, and/or to get access to the boot order menu from the BIOS, use halt, followed by pressing a key.

On SPARC, the default configuration requires that you use reboot -f for a fast reboot. If you wish fast reboot to be the default on SPARC, you must override an SMF property, as follows:

# svccfg -s "system/boot-config:default" setprop\ config/fastreboot_default=true
# svcadm refresh svc:/system/boot-config:default

To temporarily override the setting and reboot the slow way, you can use reboot -p, aka "reboot to PROM".