[OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 05/05/18 12:10 PM, zeitraffer wrote:
> Hello!
> The current documentation does not claim that current OI supports UEFI, but
> I see that the current live disk can boot in UEFI.
> I have tried to boot it into UEFI and to make install by the text installer
> onto the GPT drive.
> After installation I have seen 3 partitions, but the boot one is not of FAT
> type, so UEFI cannot boot from it.
> What am I doing wrong? Does OI support UEFI currently?

Hello.
UEFI boot support is not finished. OI can boot in UEFI mode, but
a) illumos-gate currently lacks support of UEFI vga console (so you are 
limited to serial console and X11)
b) installation images currently can boot in UEFI mode, but installer 
doesn't perform all steps to create correct UEFI image. You'll have to
manually create pcfs on EFI system partition and copy /boot/loader.efi 
to /efi/boot/bootx64.efi on system partition.

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department