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

Andrew M. Hettinger AHettinger at Prominic.NET
Wed Mar 4 16:46:19 UTC 2015


sweet! pulling that down now.

Andrew Hettinger
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Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote on 03/04/2015 04:10:49 AM:
>
> On 03/04/2015 02:25, Andrew M. Hettinger wrote:
> > 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!
>
> If you want to test current ISO (as I mentioned, it's still experimental
> and if something except whole-root install is working, it's pure luck),
> you can get one here -
> http://buildzone.oi-build.r61.net/EFI-test/oi-text-2015-03-04.iso
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Alexander Pyhalov,
> system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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