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".