It's possible yes. Sent from my iPhone
> 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 > Oggetto: Re: Correcting: [discuss] illumos hosting offerings > > > 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 >> >> >> >> http://www.listbox.com > > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
