The esc got me to the text console all right. Booting in single user and with verbose a few times led me to problem. Some how (don't ask me how) I ended up with two ZFS filesystems with the same mountpoint. When ZFS tried to mount the second one, it failed. This is flagged as a failure in the "mount -a" command, which in turn is flagged as a failure of the local filesystem service. Which stops the whole boot process, since nearly everything depends on that.
Got rid of the duplicate and all is well. Thanks. P.S. Seems like ZFS should warn you or something when you have a configuration that won't boot. Juergen Keil wrote: > 2009/6/26 Brian Utterback <brian.utterback at sun.com>: >> I just installed a Tecra M10 with OpenSolaris 2009.06 and installed >> OpenOffice and VirtualBox 3.0 beta and now when I reboot, it just sits there >> at the OpenSolaris splash screen, with the progress indicator continually >> marking progress. >> >> The disk is accessed normally early in the boot up, but then it stops and >> there is an occasional flash, but other than that, nothing. > > Does pressing the ESC key switch back to text mode? > Has the system stopped waiting for console input from the user? > > In case switching back to text mode with the ESC key does not > work: modify the grub boot entry and delete all splashimage, > foreground, background lines, and remove the console=graphics > kernel option. Boot the kernel in text mode using the modified > grub boot entry. > > >> I tired booting with intel-iommu=no, I tried booting with -s, nothing >> changes it. I tried booting with and without a wired network connection. >> >> Any ideas on what is wrong or how I can diagnose it? > > Booting with -s needs the text mode. I would also add a -v > option to enable verbose kernel messages, to get some more > information what is happening during boot. -- blu "The advertising giveth and the EULA taketh away." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom
