[OmniOS-discuss] hangs on reboot

[Richard Elling]

> On Dec 11, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the fast reboot catch!
> 
> Yes, were contemplating it for '014 AND for upstreaming.  Not sure yet if it'll happen, but this thread makes a compelling case.

FWIW, even Oracle has not been successful in getting fastboot to work
consistently in x86. We always disable it, as do some other illumos distros.
Make your life easier, disable by default.


 -- richard

> 
> Dan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
> 
> On Dec 11, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Rune Tipsmark
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:26 PM
>>> 
>>> I got a bunch (3) installations of omnios on SuperMicro hardware and all 3
>>> have issues rebooting. They simply hang and never ever reboot.
>> 
>> Disable fast reboot:
>> 
>> svccfg -s "system/boot-config:default" setprop
>> config/fastreboot_default=false
>> svccfg -s "system/boot-config:default" setprop
>> config/fastreboot_onpanic=false
>> svcadm refresh svc:/system/boot-config:default
>> 
>> Some systems (it seems particularly common on supermicro hardware) tend to
>> wedge up with fast reboot enabled. If you want to verify this is the issue
>> before changing the configuration, try 'reboot -p' which should do a one
>> time regular reboot without changing the default.
>> 
>> Dan, there was some talk of making fast reboot disabled the default, and
>> having people who wanted it need to enable it, rather than the other way
>> around? Any thoughts?
>> 
>> 
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