Shawn Walker wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've noticed that in later builds, "fast reboot" started working. The
> first time I noticed it was quite by accident when I had sworn I hit
> the "Restart" button on the shutdown dialog only to discover my system
> had not actually restarted.
>
> While I know fast reboot is useful for folks that only have
> OpenSolaris on their system, I'm somewhat annoyed that clicking
> "Restart" does not actually *restart* my system for these reasons:
>
> * I may need to reset some misbehaving hardware and so need an actual
> system restart
>
> * I want to get back to my GRUB menu so I can select a different boot
> environment, OS, etc.
>
> Can the Restart button be fixed to actually trigger a restart again
> and a "Fast Reboot" or some similar button be added to the shutdown
> dialog?
Shawn,
They have been planed to be added to current shutdown dialog. Some
work is in progress. There is a bug filed in internal bugster, but
please feel free to file one in defect.opensolaris.org.
Thanks,
Harry
>
> I looked around for a bug for this, but didn't find one.
>
> Cheers,
