It's possible yes.  

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> On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:54 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Do you think I have any chance that the OS is logging something in 
> /var/adm/messages?
> Maybe I can try to download the disk file, and find some why to attach it or 
> read it on another running illumos and
> import its zfs rpool?
> 
> 
> 
> Da: Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]>
> A: [email protected] 
> Data: 24 settembre 2015 4.26.42 CEST
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> 
> 
> 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&rsquo;t one 
>> configured.
>> 
>> Kim
>> 
>> 
>> 
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