Kyle McDonald wrote: > Yep. After doing all that, it booted fine, and I was able to see what > was wrong. > > During install, I picked 'no language support' (or something close to > that wording) since I wanted only the 'C' POSIX locale. > > It turns out picking this does do what I wanted, but in a broken way. > > In /etc/init.d instead of putting LANG=C, it puts LANG=C/POSIX, and that > just causes all sorts of error messages during bootup. After I fixed > that, I rebooted in text mode, and the message were gone, then I > rebooted in the default graphical mode, and it all came up fine. >
That's also fixed in RC2. Dave > Thanks for the help! > > -Kyle > > mary ding wrote: >> Kyle: >> >> Need to do this to edit the grub menu: >> >> splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm - need to use d >> foreground d25f00 - need to use d >> background 115d93" lines - need to use d >> and remove ",console=graphics" in kernel$ line from the GRUB menu - >> need to use e >> >> After that, hit return and use "b", this works for me. >> >> >> >> Dave Miner wrote: >>> Kyle McDonald wrote: >>>> Ok so I tried some things... >>>> >>>> I tried using grub to edit the boot options, I: >>>> >>>> 1) removed the 'console=graphical' entirely - still get the >>>> graphical boot. >>>> 2) changed 'graphical' to 'text' - Screen gets all whacked out (all >>>> sorts of short blue and orange horizontal lines) >>>> 3) got rid of the foreground, background, and splash lines - no >>>> effect that I can see. >>>> >>>> I'm going to add -kv next. >>>> >>>> What else should I try? >>>> >>> >>> Both #1 and #3 above together ;-) >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>>> -Kyle >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Kyle McDonald wrote: >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> Booting from the CD went fine. >>>>> Installing went without error. >>>>> >>>>> When I rebooted, grub came up fine, and I chose the 1 menu option >>>>> present. >>>>> >>>>> I really liked the new artwork, and the graphical boot is nice, but >>>>> I've been sitting here 10 minutes or more, and the graphical boot >>>>> is still covering the screen, and the little orange line is still >>>>> going back and forth. >>>>> >>>>> What could it be doing? >>>>> >>>>> How can I figure out what it *is* doing? >>>>> >>>>> -Kyle >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> indiana-discuss mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> indiana-discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> indiana-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
