[OpenIndiana-discuss] [lame q] point to documentation for rescue type boot

[Harry Putnam]

Oscar del Rio <delrio at mie.utoronto.ca> writes:

>> I'm not sure what all I've done but the main thing is that I disabled
>> gdm.  I did it on purpose and have done that in the past on other oi
>> and os before that to make bootup go to a console instead of the gui.
>
> press Esc key to get the login prompt.
> Then remove the graphics options from the grub boot menu to get rid of
> the splash screen.

Thanks. 

Egad... I discovered that shortly after posting.  Doing an <ENTER> has
the same effect of bringing up the login prompt.  It just appears to
be hung up.

I guess the fact that no login prompt appears without taking some kind
of action should be seen as a bug ... right?