Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Solaris Device Detection.

Unlike Windows and Linux Solaris does not starts detection of new hardware while booting up.
Either it needs to be told to boot up in reconfigure mode or u have to detect all the devices using specific commands.

Here I will Put the ways of automatic reconfiguration:

  1. boot -r command on ok prompt (openBoot) before loading of OS.
  2. touch /etc/reconfigure in OS to detect new devices next time it boots.
  3. reboot -- -r. In this command what we are actually doing is rebooting and telling it to pass options to the boot command on ok prompt. Anything after -- is considered as options for boot.
Remember these commands are to detect the devices. Some devices might still require some drivers to be installed to run properly.

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