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SPARC T7 Series Servers Administration Guide

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Updated: August 2017
 
 

Obtain the OpenBoot Prompt (Oracle Solaris)

Use this procedure when you want to shut down the OS and reach the ok prompt.

  1. Log in to Oracle Solaris as a user with root privileges.
  2. Shut down the OS.
    # shutdown -g0 -i0 -y
     
    Shutdown started.    Wed Sep 19 15:17:45 PDT 2012
     
    Changing to init state 0 - please wait
    Broadcast Message from root (console) on systemA.com Wed Sep 19 15:17:45...
    THE SYSTEM systemA.com IS BEING SHUT DOWN NOW ! ! !
    Log off now or risk your files being damaged
     
    root@systemA:~# svc.startd: The system is coming down.  Please wait.
    svc.startd: 126 system services are now being stopped.
    Sep 19 15:18:01 systemA.com syslogd: going down on signal 15
    svc.startd: Killing user processes.
    Sep 19 15:18:07 The system is down.  Shutdown took 22 seconds.
    syncing file systems... done
    Program terminated
    ...
    {0} ok
    

    The OS is shut down and the OpenBoot prompt (ok) is displayed.

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