Anant Shrivastava : Techno Enthusiast

I was setting up open solaris virtual machine using virtualbox but the machine hung at the boot screen, a lot of search from internet finally revealed following facts.

Graphical Boot Screen in OpenSolaris is known as HAPPY FACE.

unlike Linux boot entries in Open Solaris we have 4 line to change

you will find 3 lines listed as

splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
foreground d25f00
background 115d93

You need to delete these lines, this can be done by first pressing “e” on boot menu and then pressing d keeping cursor on the line to be deleted.

next we need to edit line starting with “kernel$” and remove the following portion.

,console=graphics

This will let you boot Open Solaris in console mode and can in turn let you find errors occurring.

Note : this same feature could be implemented as a second entry in Grub. detailed post on Grub will come as soon as i get time from my busy schedule for penning it down.

Busy like hell these days with a inhouse project for my firm.

working on HTML / CSS as well as graphing / charting for the project.

the toolset i am using

1. Open Flash Chart
2. FaceBox
3. Jquery
4. Jsp
5. MySql

A simple tip i am writing as i was experimenting with Facebox, Open Flash Chart, and a large array of javascript in one page.

and i found one error.

while the default samples provided at open flash chart website work fatastically when working alone but have a piculiar to flash problem while working with jquery specially facebox.

when a facebox method is called it goes in the backround while the flash remains in the foreground. no matter what z-index game you try but flash always remain on top of facebox.

A bit of googling yielded http://joelg.info/problem-with-flash-appearing-on-top-of-facebo

but this talked about adding a parameter in flash embed object code in HTML

but while working on advance javascript only method of open flash chart i was using just swfobject code and hence to obtain above requested feature we need

X.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent”);

to be added in the function calling. where X is the SWFobject.

Hope this helps someone else finding solution a bit easily.

Note : tested on Firefox 3.5 and IE 6.0