[indiana-discuss] No boot to X with osol 2009.6 iso... text only working option

[Hemantha Holla]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Using the 2009.6 iso inside a virtual box I'm unable to boot into the
> default (X) desktop.  
>
> When I let the grub prompt timeout, to ensure I'm using the default I
> see the little dots marking the extraction of the kernel and os.  But
> then it just pops to a text screen showing version info.  No bootup
> happens at all.
>
> Using the text option... I can get booted... but far as I know there
> is no text based installer... is there?
>
> Screen shots of grub prompt, final text window and basic virtualbox
> settings. 
>
>   www.jtan.com/~reader/vu2/disp.cgi
>   

Does choosing "VESA Driver" option help ? From the build 118 repository 
update announcement,

> 6854482 Xorg 1.6 doesn't try vesa by default
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6854482
>
>     When the OpenSolaris Live CD is booted under VirtualBox, the
>     Xorg server is not started automatically.
>
>     Work-around: When the initial GRUB menu appears, select the
>     "OpenSolaris 2009.06 VESA driver" option.