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

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello!

Backgound:

On a very new system i can't enable legacy boot for internal drives. :-(
So i have to enable UEFI boot on an installed legacy boot system.

The installed image i would like to use has a /boot/loader64.efi
I copied this to the ESP partition as BOOTX64.efi, added it manually to
the uefi boot menu (i didn't work now but that is work in progress for me)

Surprise
A different OI host has a /boot/boot64.efi file. This file is of Oct 25,
last pkg update to the system was maybe in Nov.

Question:
Why is the file on the older system, and not on the othe system with an
update about 1 week old?


Greetings,
Stephan


On 05/07/18 09:45 AM, Alexander Pyhalov 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.
>