Glenn Lagasse wrote: > Hey Sanjay, > > * Sanjay Nadkarni (Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com) wrote: > >> One of the things I am trying to figure out the number of options a user >> should have to boot OpenSolaris. This of course directly translates to >> the number of grub entries. Currently, the entry will boot the >> system in the best available mode, i.e if your hardware supports ISA64 >> then opensolaris will boot into a 64 bit mode. However, should should >> there be an explicit entry for booting into 32 bit mode ? (For October >> prototype there is no safe mode boot. ) Should there be a no-acpi based >> boot ? >> >> Your thoughts are welcome. >> > > I think we probably want to keep things simple. Too many choices are > likely to confuse. But a few choices might not be a bad idea. I don't > know that we need an explicit 32 bit entry. Have we ever seen an issue > where the auto-detection failed? A non-acpi entry might be a good idea > given the horrible state of acpi support on most consumer grade hardware > we've seen. > > Cheers, > I just put into a defer state a bug requesting the no-acpi option. They had it at a P2.
Jean > Glenn > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
