I just found a solutions. It was a pain in the ass, but I got there.

It was a combination of GRUB settings and disabling GDM.

1. In GRUB, changed from "console graphic" to "console text".

bootadm list-menu

The location of the boot loader configuration files is: /rpool/boot/grub default 3 console text timeout 30 0 Oracle Solaris 11.4 1 solaris-1 2 11.4.27.82.1 3 11.4.28.82.3

2. Then I had to remove kargs in the GRUB entry.

root@fmsops:# bootadm show-entry -i 4 title: 11.4.27.82.1 kernel: /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix kernel arguments: None boot archive: /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive bootfs: rpool/ROOT/11.4.27.82.1

That took care of bootup, but it still tried to get me to the GUI at login.

3. I had to disable GDM.

svcs -a | grep gdm

online 11:21:59 svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default

svcadm disable svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default

I just found a solutions. It was a pain in the ass, but I got there.

It was a combination of GRUB settings and disabling GDM.

1. In GRUB, changed from console graphic to console text.

   # bootadm list-menu
   The location of the boot loader configuration files is: /rpool/boot/grub
   default 3
   console text
   timeout 30
   0 Oracle Solaris 11.4
   1 solaris-1
   2 11.4.27.82.1
   3 11.4.28.82.3
   

2. Then I had to remove kargs in the GRUB entry.

   root@fmsops:# bootadm show-entry -i 4
   title: 11.4.27.82.1
   kernel: /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
   kernel arguments: None
   boot archive: /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
   bootfs: rpool/ROOT/11.4.27.82.1
   

   That took care of bootup, but it still tried to get me to the GUI at login.

3. I had to disable GDM.

   # svcs -a | grep gdm
   online         11:21:59        svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
   # svcadm disable svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default