Controlling Recovery Mode

The ldmd/recovery_mode SMF property controls recovery mode behavior. Recovery mode is enabled by default.

When the ldmd/recovery_mode property is not present or is set to auto, recovery mode is enabled.

When the ldmd/recovery_mode property is set to never, the Logical Domains Manager exits recovery mode without taking any action and the physical domain runs the factory-default configuration.

Note:

If the system firmware requests recovery mode while it is not enabled, issue the following commands to enable recovery mode after the request is made:

primary# svccfg -s ldmd setprop ldmd/recovery_mode = astring: auto
primary# svcadm refresh ldmd
primary# svcadm restart ldmd

Recovery mode is initiated immediately in this scenario only if no changes were made to the system, that is, if it is still in the factory-default configuration.

In addition to enabling recovery mode, you can specify a timeout value for a root domain boot during recovery. By default, the ldmd/recovery_mode_boot_timeout property value is 30 minutes. Valid values start at 5 minutes.