I guess what I'm seeing on that crappy Dell Poweredge server might be a manifestation of this bug:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13540 ? It was a fresh install from the live CD. Other than that, once I did a: svcadm disable gdm and modified grub to look like this: # cat /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst #splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz #background 215ECA default 0 timeout 4 #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- title OpenSolaris Development snv_130 findroot (pool_rpool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -v -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive #---------------------END BOOTADM-------------------- to get rid of that annoying happy face boot thing that prevents the text console from loading, it works fine as a headless server in CLI / text mode with no X-windows running on it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
