Hi,
you could always add another grub boot instance with the 'text mode
only' option.....
check /rpool/
I can't remember the name of the dir exactly now as I'm not in Solaris
but should be something like /rpool/ROOT/boot/grub/menu.lst
add another instance of your current BE and disable any graphical
parameters that might be lurking around like splash image etc....
That's the only way that I know of anyhow. Linux is a lot easier and I
wish that OpenSol becomes like that one day but for now we make do with
what we've got unless anyone more qualified knows otherwise :-)
Regards,
Kaya
On 03/07/2010 07:57 PM, Rand All wrote:
Is there any nice, straightforward way to select at boot whether to load a GDM
desktop or stick with text console?
On a live CD or USB image, there is an option in the GRUB menu to pass
'livemode=text' to the kernel and keep it from loading X, but, I tried that on
a full installation, and, not surprisingly, it doesn't work the same.
I know how to enable or disable the GDM service with svcadm, but that's not
quite what I want. I want to boot to a full graphical desktop most of the
time, but I want to be able to select some magic option at boot time to tell
the system to disable GDM login just for one session.
Anyone have any brilliant advice?
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