Paul, for exactly that reason I changed the menu.lst so that my default boot is a very verbose text boot - I want to see whats going on. The last section (default 1) is the text boot, it's the same as the first, except it changes to text boot. I think you need to run
# bootadm update-archive to maintain the changes after updating menu.lst, but might be wrong. # cat /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst #============================x============= splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz background 215ECA timeout 5 default 1 #============================x============= title os-3 findroot (pool_rpool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/os-3 splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm foreground d25f00 background 115d93 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive #============================x============= title OpenSolaris text boot findroot (pool_rpool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/os-3 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -v -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive #============================x============= -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
