Hi Alok, Alok Aggarwal wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Jan Damborsky wrote: > >> Hi Alok, >> >> I think that fix for following bug will address this problem >> (on machines with support for serial console redirection in BIOS): >> >> 6739497 GRUB Splashimage in OpenSolaris causes broken serial console >> boot >> >> See bug 5721 for more details: >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5721#c9 > > I think the fix for 5721 makes sure that the happy > face boot does not get displayed upon a reboot post > install. That is, the happy face boot settings are > not carried through to the installed system. > > This is slightly different than the case where console > redirection isn't set up correctly at install time > unless you manually specify "console=ttya" on the grub > line. > > Am I correct?
Yes, this is how fix for 5721 works. However, my understanding is that fix for 6739497 might deal with the scenario you are interested in (at least with the case where BIOS supports serial console redirection) - let me quote from 5721#c9: "It seems to cover common scenarios where machine implements support for console redirection to serial line in BIOS. SPCR (Serial Port Console Redirection Table) ACPI table will be checked by GRUB in order to determine if console is redirected to the serial port. In that case GRUB will disable all graphics and pass that information (serial console port and other settings) to the kernel as well." Jan
