Solaris

I am using:

Code:

reboot -- cdrom

However I'm afraid of causing file system errors/corruption. I've seen many threads say that

Code:

init 6

is safer, but I need to get to CDROM.

Is there a command that is as safe as init, but can boot to cdrom, or should I not worry so much about the reboot command?

Please rephrase your question as many readers, including myself, will not understand your use of the term "lovechild."

A safer alternative to using reboot is to use the shutdown command.

I don't have Solaris at home, but I don't remember seeing a way to get to CDROM using shutdown in the man page.

In case you want know, I can suggest two methods:
Method I)If box is Sun-made:
1. #shutdown -y -g0 -i0 (Go to Boot Prom phase)
2. ok>boot cdrom(Boot with CDROM)
Method II)If not Sun-made(X86):
1. #eeprom bootdevice=<Physical_path_of_CDROM> (System's boot device is now CDROM)
2. #shutdown -y -g0 -i6 (Reboot. System will boot with CDROM)
3. You should again switch back to your default boot device (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0).
#mkdir /tmp/root/a ; mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (Mount your actual device on a temporary boot disk)
#ls -l /tmp/root/a/cev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (This will give you the physical address)
#eeprom bootdevice=<physical_path_of_c0t0d0s0>
#shutdown -y -g0 -i6

All, if there is something wrong, please let me know.

Sorry, I forgot to mention my goal here is to do this within a script that requires as little user intervention as possible--so I'm looking more for something that would work like: shutdown -i6 -- cdrom

This is probably the method I will use if no one has the command I'm hoping is out there...

I tried this one as I was hoping that the CDROM program (which installs software onto a blank hard drive) would set the boot device back to a hard drive. Instead it gets so confused with seeing the boot device being changed to CDROM that the installer program just errors out and won't run. I then have to switch the boot device back to disk from OBP.

Thanks for your response though!

Is there really not any way to do this?