Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4100 M2 - Manual (Page 43)

Chapter 3 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System 35
Selecting Your Console Output
Unlike with SPARC ® systems, you will not see the output of the preinstalled
Solaris 10 image through a monitor when you power on the server. Instead, the
output of the preinstalled image is directed to a serial console.
GRUB, the open source boot loader, is the default boot loader. The boot loader is the
first software program that runs after you power on a system.
From the GRUB menu, you have the option of displaying the installation process to
a VGA connection (video port) as shown here:
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* Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86 *
* Solaris failsafe *
* Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86 (VGA) *
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Note – The first line of the above figure shows the default startup mode.
Example
To display output to the video port, choose the Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86
(VGA) option.