Hugh my friend, the "happy face boot" is the most retarded thing I have ever seen in the history of UNIX server operating systems. Because you're a sysadmin who only uses SSH to connect to remote servers and administer them from the command line, of course you are going to want to disable tha pesky resource hogging gnome desktop with "svcadm disable gdm" command and then some clown in the data center reboots your server on accident so that when you come back a week later to see what messages are on the console, all you see is a blue background with an orange bar moving back and forth forever and ever. Honestly, I can't say that I've ever had that problem with FreeBSD or Red Hat or Ubuntu server or OpenBSD..... and people who work at Sun wonder why there is a prevailing impression in the *nix community that OpenSolaris is geared for desktop more than server use....
The trick to getting rid of that evil "happy face" thing is that you want to edit the /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst file and comment out the splashimage, foreground and background lines and remove the "console=graphics" part at the end of your $kernel line and replace it with a "-v" for a nice, beautiful, FreeBSD style verbose UNIX kernel boot with lots of informative and useful text messages flying by while the server boots up that tell you (the sysadmin) useful things about the server and the OS kernel as it's starting up. After you are done editing it, your grub/menu.lst file should look something like this: $ cat /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 3 default 0 #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- # # ....too late, I already edited it. # - the sysadmin # title OpenSolaris Development snv_129 findroot (pool_rpool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS -v module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive #---------------------END BOOTADM-------------------- -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
