Boot the Labeled Zone

Before You Begin

You are superuser in the global zone. The zone is installed, and has an assigned a network interface.

The Labeled Zone Manager dialog box is displayed with the subtitle zone-name:installed. To open this GUI, see Run the txzonemgr Script.

1. In the Labeled Zone manager, select Zone Console and click OK.

   A separate console window appears for the current labeled zone.

2. Select Boot.

   The Zone Terminal Console tracks the progress of booting the zone. If the zone is created from scratch, messages that are similar to the following appear in the console:

   [Connected to zone 'public' console] [NOTICE: Zone booting up] ... Hostname: zone-name Loading smf(5) service descriptions: number/total Creating new rsa public/private host key pair Creating new dsa public/private host key pair rebooting system due to change(s) in /etc/default/init [NOTICE: Zone rebooting]

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   Caution –

   Do not perform other tasks while this task is completing.

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Troubleshooting

Sometimes, error messages are displayed and the zone does not reboot. In the Zone Terminal Console, press the Return key. If you are prompted to type y to reboot, type y and press the Return key. The zone reboots.

Next Steps

If this zone was copied or cloned from another zone, continue with Verify the Status of the Zone.

If this zone is the first zone, continue with Customize the Labeled Zone.