Matt-J.co.uk : Ramblings

Just something I have noticed while playing around with my solaris box today.

First off, USB keyboards wont work in grub, but that’s probably more my BIOS’s problem (however I can use it for selecting Setup or the boot selection screen :S (f2,f11 etc)

But the main thing I have noticed,

If I press enter to boot the default item in grub (PS2 Kbd as USB wont work), I get the solaris sunOS banner, then a few shared IRQ notices (running Xvm)  and then a blinking cursor, forever.

However, letting grub choose the SAME item itself (allowing the 4 second countdown to expire and boot the item, without pressing anything) it boots fine:

SunOS banner, IRQ notices, Hostname, ZFS config info, Starting GUI.

This is 100% reproducable, and I’m wondering if anyone else has come accross the same thing? Not really a problem, but strange all the same.

–Matt