The floppy thing makes perfect sense. Anyway, you can disable the splash by turning off splash image, and background, and changing the console=graphics to console=text line in the grub menu.lst file.
I always do that on all my installs, because I think the stupid happy face boot (that's the code name) is a crapware that just gets in my way when I'm trying to do Real Work (kernel debugging ,etc.) On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Kim Shrier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Garret, > > > > unfortunately there's a graphic splash hiding text after I press "b" on > the modified entry with "-k". > > So I just see the splash for one minute, then it gets away, showing the > text OS banner preceded by "Loading kmdb". > > Here the cursor still flashes, tried pressing shift+F1, nothing > happens.... > > > > I couldn't find any option on the grub edit to remove the graphical > banner. Any idea? > > In any case I tried pressing F1 anyway right after pressing b to boot, > but find nothing more than the hanging banner... > > > > I'll try to leave the machine running as is, maybe it "wakes up" as it > did other times, and goes to the kmdb prompt... > > > > I'll check tomorrow what's on the console, night time now here in Italy > ;) > > > > All my thanks, > > Gabriele > > Just a shot in the dark but have you tried configuring a floppy device on > your VM? > > I used to have problems during device discovery if there wasn’t one > configured. > > Kim > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
