I know you can add a '-v' flag to the GRUB boot options to allow verbose booting. Maybe if you can find the equivalent options on the install cd it will work?
Maybe you can made a r/w copy of the first .iso image and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the -v option? Then burn that to CD... Blake On 6/1/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > Blake wrote: > > > Is there a way to boot verbosely from the boot CD? I would try that, > > though I'm not sure how I'd do that... > > I don't think there is, at least not on x86. On SPARC you can go to the > Boot PROM prompt, at least (though I can't recall seeing a switch like > this). x86 is an auto-boot system, with no PROM commandline to fall back on. > > > In general, though I'm aware that I'm not able to contribute in this > > area, Solaris 10 could use much better hardware support. I'd love to > > see an install as painless and fast as Ubuntu Linux. > > The frustrating thing for me is that the one PC _used_ to run OS, and > something has changed so that it no longer runs current versions. The > Solaris 10 Update 1 DVD works. Anything I have that's more current fails > to even get to the GRUB portion. > > Rainer > >
