Dave Miner wrote: > Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: > > [...] >> I also tried using the hiddenmenu option in GRUB. This worked fine. >> However I am not sure I liked the effect. What I saw a black screen. >> At the top of the screen was a line with the count down to boot. The >> background/foreground for this line was blue on white. So the visual >> effect was not pleasing to me. I would be interested in feedback from >> others especially Frank and the JDS folks. >> >> > > Yeah, IMHO it's a little too spare. It's also a little disconcerting, > because the splash screen then gets displayed quickly before the kernel > engages and clears it. >
There is a way to get the same effect without using the hiddenmenu option and so without losing the splash screen. Essentially one has to provide an alternate menu.lst that has more options while the default one has just one default boot entry and another advanced options entry. Selecting the advanced options entry brings up the alternate menu.lst via the configfile GRUB command. For eg.: /boot/grub/menu.lst title OpenSolaris (Indiana) ... kernel ... module ... title Advanced Boot Options configfile /boot/grub/menu1.lst /boot/grub/menu1.lst ... more boot entries ... Regards, Moinak. > Dave > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
