[oi-dev] [developer] HEADS UP: illumos supports booting from EFI-labeled disks now, including large disks and whole-disk vdevs

[Andrew M. Hettinger]

I will try to do some testing on this this week or next.

This is actually kind of a big deal for me. EFI disks make replacing boot
disks a much simpler procedure.

Thanks for these, guys!

Andrew Hettinger
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Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote on 03/03/2015 04:00:05 PM:
>
> Dan McDonald писал 01.03.2015 20:58:
> > Are these mods to Caiman?  Can you share?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
>
> Hello.
> I'd like to get some reviews, testing and perhaps assistance on the
> following code - https://github.com/pyhalov/slim_source/tree/efi_install
>
> These are modifications to OI text installer which allow installation on
> EFI-labeled disks.
> Note, it's more proof of concept code, which needs further cleanup and
> testing.
>
> What is tested and should be working:
> Default (whole_root) installation on EFI-labeled disk
> Default (whole_root) installation on empty disk (creates EFI-labeled
> disk)
>
> What is known to be broken:
> slice management inside partitions on x86 (explicitly disabled for now)
>
> What is likely to be broken (not-tested):
> - non whole-root installation
> - any other installation method :)
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