reboot help for solaris 8

[roopar]

I have installed Solaris 8 on an ultra10 sparc machine to get experience. I was trying shutdown and reboot on the machine. It shutdown appropriately but when it tried to reboot it did not go to the prompt where it says control–d for normal reboot after changes, but came up with a question enter filename [[-d]]: could any one explain what this means. I am novice where Solaris is concerned. Any help would be appreciated

 

[yowza]

What command did you use to get to this point? I basically use 2 commands to shutdown/reboot. If you are root and do an init 6 the system will shutdown and reboot and you won't see the Ctrl-D. If you need to power the system off, do a init 5. I don't use the shutdown command unless I have to.

Hope this helps.

 

[Guest_imported]

A "control-d for normal startup" message will only occur when you booted to single user (reboot -- -s or boot -s).
If you want a cold reboot. you'll probably do an init 0 or 5, and then at the Ok prompt, you'll do a "boot" (disk by default), otherwise you can simply type reboot or init 6.
And to be safe you can do a "sync" command twice before you reboot.
Hope this helps.