Friday, October 5, 2012

Solaris : Boot in verbose

Today I faced an issue an required to boot my Solaris 11 x86 ( x64 ) box in verbose more.
When i simply tried appending "-v" option to the kernel line in Grub menu it started to show boot progress in verbose mode.
Later after searching Solaris docs I found we need another option ie. "-m verbose"
-v flag will be interpreted by Kernel where as -m verbose is a milestone flag interpreted by SMF.

So finally during boot i was able to see more detailed progress and now we can see which services are being initialized etc.

Check below :
On the Grub menu press "e" to enter the Edit mode :





Edit the kernel line by pressing "e" then enter "-v -m verbose"



Press Return/Enter.
Then press "b" to boot and you are done.

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