[OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 15:40, Chris <oidev at 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