I couldn't resist and wrote a blog entry about the "Smiley face" boot:
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/smiley_face_not_100_ready -Roman Roman Strobl wrote: > Hi, > > choose the second option in GRUB (text boot). > > -Roman > > Nik Masloff wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> how to turn off loading progress bar, which appears after choosing >> OpenSolaris from the grub? >> >> If you turn off GDM (for login to X server via "startx") - this progress bar >> doesn`t dissapears, and you have to login blindly :) >> >> Thank you >> >> > > > -- Roman Strobl OpenSolaris Evangelist http://blogs.sun.com/observatory