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

[Andy Fiddaman]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Chris wrote:

; OK just dragged a Dell Optiplex 790 off the shelf
; with a 4 core 8 thread i5 CPU in it, and as much RAM
; as I could jam in it.
; BIOS:
; boot UEFI
; SATA ahci
; I've tried 2 different Nvidia cards, as well as the
; intermal video. The results are the same;
; 2.5 minutes to get to the OI banner/boot options.
; An additiona 3.5 to draw the OI banner/options screen.
; It takes ~0.5 seconds to draw each cell. To be clear;
; I'm not complaining here. Rather, I'm trying to
; pinpoint WTF is going wrong in hopes of overcoming
; the problem. I've attempted to put OI on 3 different
; computers now, and the results have all been
; underwhelming in the console dept.
;
; Any thoughts?

If you can press <escape> really early in the boot process, you get the
first loader prompt (I forget exactly how it looks). At that point,
enter "-t" without the quotes and press return. That will keep in
VGA mode, which might well be faster/usable.

Andy