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

[zeitraffer]

Copying just loader.efi and running it from EFI Shell says "Illumos...(a
few lines)... start not found" and shows "ok" prompt. But copying the whole
/boot/* and running boot1.efi works fine. Thank you.

On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 10:45 Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:

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