James Carlson <[email protected]> writes: > On 8/8/2015 6:02 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Top image is initial screen; I pressed `e' on last item >> That brought bottom image up where I pressed `e' and added >> textmode,verbose on each line where you see a green dot. (in rotation) > > The flags make sense only on the "kernel$" line. And I think you want > to have "-m textmode,verbose" -- the "-m" tells the kernel to pass the > flags along to SMF. Here's a blog posting from a few years ago that > discusses this: > > http://lserinol.blogspot.com/2009/02/booting-opensolaris-in-verbose-mode.html
Thanks for the pointer and advice. I added this to the end of kernel line: [...]<spc>-m textmode,verbose Then pressed enter, then pressed b The boot attempt ended exactly as I've described. That is, It goes to the boot progress graphic, the heavy white line turn red on the left side.... then a spontanious reboot and around we go again. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
