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

[Stephan Althaus]

Hi all!

i want to share the results of my most recent experiment
this is a newish system which supports legay boot only with external
drives :-{ so i *need* UEFI..

(*from memory..)
1) i took the usb install image of nov 2018 build by Aurélien Larcher
2) legacy booted the stick and installed oi to an NVMe drive using the
text installer, i chose "EFI whole disk"
3) after installation completed, mkfs the existing 1st partition
(~235MB) on the NVMe disk that was marked with efi+boot as vfat, and
copied the dirs+files there just like they are on the stick
4) after reboot and pressing F12 the NVME drive showed up in the
BIOS/UEFI boot menu
5) Boot succeeded, with showing text output while booting (i believed
this would not work?), and arrived the vesa graphical ui   :-D
6) placed the default publisher openindiana.org and hipster-encumbered,
pkg refresh and pkg update
7) Reboot - F12 and the system is booting the new BE with text output
while booting to vesa gui

maybe this would work with a different recent install image, too(?)

however, thanks to Aurélien Larcher and all others for this all making
happen!
 :-)

Stephan

On 01/18/19 01:40 PM, Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu wrote:
> Hello!
> Thanks for the hint.i filed bug #10260 at illumos
> Stephan
> Gesendet von meinem LG Mobile
> ------ Originalnachricht------Von: Joshua M. ClulowDatum: Do., 17. Jan. 2019 23:21An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana;Cc: Betreff:Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 13:50, Stephan Althaus wrote:> 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?I think this illumos bug made some changes in that area:    https://www.illumos.org/issues/9664Cheers.-- Joshua M. ClulowEngineer @ Joyenthttp://blog.sysmgr.org_______________________________________________openindiana-discuss mailing listopenindiana-discuss at openindiana.orghttps://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
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