On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Chris wrote: ; OK just dragged a Dell Optiplex 790 off the shelf ; with a 4 core 8 thread i5 CPU in it, and as much RAM ; as I could jam in it. ; BIOS: ; boot UEFI ; SATA ahci ; I've tried 2 different Nvidia cards, as well as the ; intermal video. The results are the same; ; 2.5 minutes to get to the OI banner/boot options. ; An additiona 3.5 to draw the OI banner/options screen. ; It takes ~0.5 seconds to draw each cell. To be clear; ; I'm not complaining here. Rather, I'm trying to ; pinpoint WTF is going wrong in hopes of overcoming ; the problem. I've attempted to put OI on 3 different ; computers now, and the results have all been ; underwhelming in the console dept. ; ; Any thoughts?
If you can press <escape> really early in the boot process, you get the first loader prompt (I forget exactly how it looks). At that point, enter "-t" without the quotes and press return. That will keep in VGA mode, which might well be faster/usable. Andy _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
