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Hi everyone,
Commit ea4644129e has just landed in smartos-live today (not in
yesterday's build). This change brings some improvements to the GRUB
menu over from SDC. Grub will attempt to render its menu on both the VGA
output and a serial port at the same time (preferring ttyb, then ttya,
then ttyc, then ttyd in that order if the preceding one doesn't work) .
This means that hardware built to Joyent's specifications will now be
able to choose a grub entry over the IPMI console when using SmartOS
boot media.
Additionally it changes how you choose where the OS console goes. The
default to go over the VGA remains unchanged, but now instead of extra
grub menu entries, if you want to change to e.g. ttya or ttyb, you can,
as GRUB will tell you, drop to a GRUB command line, run a command, hit
escape, and then boot. You can also edit the menu.lst file on your USB
stick to make that change persist.
Also, it adds to the noinstall menu option a reminder of the credentials
to use to log in.
Here are the before and after of what it looks like:
Before:
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/20391/6237565/ff47d746-b6c1-11e4-8edc-3468010b524f.png
After:
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/20391/6237559/eea16a6a-b6c1-11e4-8b39-cf3b53c60337.png
And finally, for those who build their own SmartOS media, the
build_iso/build_usb tools allow you to specify a different default OS
console (and thus a different order preference for GRUB to try for menu
rendering) when you run them.
Happy Friday!
-Nahum
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