The following procedures describe how to use the Fast Reboot capability. All of these procedures require you to type commands from a command line as the root user. For instructions on how to open a terminal window to get to a command prompt, see How to Open a Terminal Window.

The information in the following sections describe how to use this feature.

• How to Initiate a Fast Reboot of the System
• Initiating a Fast Reboot to a Specific UFS Boot Disk or a ZFS Root Pool
• How to Initiate a Fast Reboot of a Directly Mounted Root Disk or Root Dataset
• Initiating a Fast Reboot to an Alternate Boot Environment in the OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS
• Facilitating a Fast Reboot by Using the uadmin Command