Keyboard issue for Stop-A command

If you're able to be up in a functional Solaris environment,

for Solairs-SPARC and for Solaris-x86,

you can use the reboot command (with proper syntax).

As root user you do ...

# reboot -- -r <enter>

That is "reboot" <space> two dash marks <space> dash "r".

The paired double dash is the delimiter for the command,

telling it to expect a 'dashed' argument.

Glance through the man page.

That sort of a reconfiguration reboot method will reconfigure any new devices

for their device paths and append them to the existing path-to-inst file.

There is another command with Solaris 8 and newer,

than can rebuild the path-to-inst file and clean out any inappropriate paths.

Do ...

# devfsadm -C <enter>

The uppercase "C" will re-Construct, (or perhaps "clean") the file

for proper functionality, leaving only valid and current entries in path-to-inst.

Again, glance through its man pages.

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I have never been a fan of the 'touch /reconfigure' method

of initiating a reconfiguration reboot.For some reason, it does not

always seem to work for me.

I use the reboot, as described, from up in Solaris,

else I use the reconfig boot option from within the bootloader,

which currently is GRUB in Solaris-10 x86.

rukbat at 2007-7-7 3:13:45 >