TL;DR? If/when smartos-live#379 gets applied, the mechanism for choosing
ttya as the system console when booting SmartOS will change to match how
it's done in SDC. You have all been warned. :)
Still here?
Now that Keith has fixed up GRUB[1] I've written some code[2] that would
let SmartOS use two features currently only available on the SDC USB sticks:
1. GRUB renders on both the VGA output and the serial port.
2. There's an os_console variable that lets you switch where illumos
should put the console messages (vga vs ttya, ttyb, etc) rather than
having lots of different GRUB entries.
In addition, If you build SmartOS yourself, you would now be able to
specify which console SmartOS should use by default when you're building
your own media.
If you build SmartOS yourself, I invite you to try out this new GRUB
menu and put any feedback in the pull request.
Many thanks to Keith for fixing those GRUB issues.
Thanks for reading!
-Nahum
[1]
*
https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/7700606bb48dbeb21848ca88265e7e5fac5b174f
* https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-3634
* https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-3635
[2] https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/pull/379
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