> 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.
Will a fix for bug 6834260 be included in 2009.06? This bug causes reboots/hangs when the ESC key is pressed at a specific point early on in boot, see: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6834260 (I hit this bug purely by chance while seeing if I could get back to the text-mode console by pressing ESC, not expecting it to work since I had not seen this new feature documented anywhere). If you are including the ability to press ESC to switch back to the text console in 2009.06 then I think you probably want to flag up this new feature to users - either in the release notes or preferably by putting "press ESC for details" (or similar) on the bootsplash. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
