Sean Liu writes:
> With SMF in solaris 10, the startup messages is no longer verbose which is 
> fine for daily job.
> However for jumpstarts, inevitably there are lots of "post reboot" scripts 
> and they are normally put in as rc scripts ( under /etc/rc3.d, for example )
> Before Solaris 10 we can easily see what's going on with the outputs from the 
> startup scripts, but now with SMF the outputs are muted.

They're not quite muted -- they're redirected to files.  See
/var/svc/log/milestone-*.log.

> Yes we can turn on SMF verbose mode after all dust settled( 
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-79196-1 ) . But how 
> can we enable this even before the system is rebooted?

Using the kernel's command line -- see kernel(1M) -- from either the
OBP on SPARC or from GRUB on x86.

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