It’s so annoying to wait 5+ minutes for Open Solaris to boot. Come to find out it’s because of the stupid graphical boot on startup. Damn gui’ness

1) Fix Grub menu.lst

• Edit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
• Comment the following

splashimage
foreground
background

• Remove ‘console=graphics’ from the ‘kernel’ line

You should end up with something like this:

splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
background 215ECA
timeout 30
default 2
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title OpenSolaris 2009.06
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris
#splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
#foreground d25f00
#background 115d93
#kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
title TrayNAS_Nov_21
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/TrayNAS_Nov_21
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
#============ End of LIBBE entry =============
title opensolaris-1
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1
#splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
#foreground d25f00
#background 115d93
#kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
#============ End of LIBBE entry =============

Resources:

• http://www.codestrom.com/wandering/2009/02/opensolaris-slow.html