On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 15:40, Chris <oi...@sunos.info> wrote: > > Thanks for taking the time to reply, Toomas! :-) > OK we have a winner! Thanks to some advice from Toomas: > adding: console=text to /boot/conf.d/console > which I later moved to /boot/loader.conf.local (console="text") > followed by commenting the console= line from /boot/default/loader.conf > I now have speed to boot menu that is close to the > OI-hipster-text-20191106.usb install I mentioned earlier in this thread. > While the screen still isn't as fast as the other some half dozen OSs > I use. It's not so slow I can't work with it. :-) > So a HUGE thanks go out to everyone here on the list, that chimed in > to help out -- THANK YOU! :-)
Does that mean loader is, on at least this machine, struggling with writes to a serial port which isn't there, perhaps? (More concretely: why does that help?) Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss