Dave,
To work around the issue, I made changes to one of our rc3.d scripts.
Regards,
Paul Southerby
NEW S96startall which is part of the NEW SUNWstartall local package ...
else
echo "grup menu default being set to text ..." >
/dev/console 2>&1
echo " " > /dev/console 2>&1
GRUB_MENU_LOCATION=`bootadm list-menu | grep menu.lst | awk '{print
$NF}'`
cp -p $GRUB_MENU_LOCATION $GRUB_MENU_LOCATION.orig
printf 'title OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111a X86
TEXT\n' >> $GRUB_MENU_LOCATION
printf 'findroot
(pool_rpool,0,a)\n' >>
$GRUB_MENU_LOCATION
printf 'bootfs
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris\n' >>
$GRUB_MENU_LOCATION
printf 'foreground
d25f00\n' >>
$GRUB_MENU_LOCATION
printf 'background
115d93\n' >>
$GRUB_MENU_LOCATION
printf 'kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B
$ZFS-BOOTFS,console=ttya\n' >> $GRUB_MENU_LOCATION
printf 'module$
/platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive\n' >>
$GRUB_MENU_LOCATION
GRUB_MENU_TEXT=`bootadm list-menu | grep -i text | awk '{print $1}'`
bootadm set-menu default=$GRUB_MENU_TEXT
bootadm set-menu timeout=7
fi
On 04/28/09 12:35, Paul Southerby wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> From start to finish I would like our x86 servers to only use the ttya
> console.
> I don't want to use the graphical interface. Is some cli commands I
> can run
> to do this?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Paul
>
> On 04/28/09 12:29, Dave Miner wrote:
>> Paul Southerby wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, I think I found what I was looking for (see below). However,
>>> I'm sill wondering why there isn't a text mode menu by default
>>> when booting up an x86 with opensolaris 111a ...
>>>
>>
>> The menu item that existed in 2008.11 and many of the 2009.06
>> development builds was a workaround for the lack of an escape from
>> the graphical boot screen (which is *not* GNOME, by the way). It was
>> removed once the keypress escape was implemented a couple of builds ago.
>>
>> What's the actual requirement you're expressing here?
>>
>> Dave
>>
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