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Restart skips grub menu
Posted:
Nov 7, 2009 3:55 AM
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
Cc: OpenSolaris » help
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Hello:
I have a system with 1 SATA HD, it has windows 7 on it (Which takes the first 2 partitions)
OpenSolaris 5.11 snv 126 is on a 3rd partition.
(It did it in snv 125 also so I updated system to 126 but still doing it)
If I powerdown and then turn it back on, I get the Grub menu fine.
If I am in OpenSaolris , and do a restart, it just restarts right back into OpenSolaris with no grub menu
timeout is 30 seconds so that is not it.
Any ideas?
I did a lot of searching both on OS forums and google, yet have not found anything.
It is probably my choise of terms, someone else must have this same 'issue"
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Eric Siegerman
pub08-osol@davor.org
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Re: [osol-help] Restart skips grub menu
Posted:
Nov 7, 2009 6:41 AM
in response to: w8wca
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On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 03:55 -0800, W. Charles Alexander wrote:
> If I am in OpenSaolris , and do a restart, it just restarts right back
into OpenSolaris with no grub menu
Short answer: That's a feature, called "fast reboot". To get a
normal, GRUB reboot, try "reboot -p" (after having used
shutdown(1m) to bring the system to single-user state, of
course).
Long answers:
- http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/reboot-1m?a=view
- http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project
+intel-platform/fastrebootdocs
Fast reboot sounds great for servers, but if you switch back and
forth often between OSol and Windows, you could find it to be
just annoying. So if you decide you prefer full, GRUB-style
reboots without having to ask for them, the second of the above
pages tells how to change the default.
[Caveat: the above is based only on reading docs. I haven't
tried it, since I don't actually have OSol installed yet...]
- Eric
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Posts:
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From:
CZ
Registered:
4/15/09
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Re: [osol-help] Restart skips grub menu
Posted:
Nov 7, 2009 5:34 PM
in response to: Eric Siegerman
To: OpenSolaris » help
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Yes, "fast reboot" is good feature for some situations, but why the hell it is doing even when I type 'pfexec shutdown -y -g 5 -i 6' ? Someone must be crazy because level 6 is there for some reasons on ALL Unixes and changing behavior of shutdown on run level 6 is not something how OpenSolaris may receive more positive attention ;-)
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