[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to boot OpenIndiana with Grub2?

[Toomas Soome]

Please note, oracle grub2 and oracle zfs are very different in this case; also public grub2 is very different. The best option would be to chainload, but I have not tested the grub2 EFI chainload for a very long time. 

You would need to create ESP:Efi/illumos/boot/loader64.efi and then grub config to chainload that file.

Rgds,
Toomas

> On 5. Feb 2021, at 03:37, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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>> On Thursday, February 4, 2021 10:51 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
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>>> On February 4, 2021 12:55:48 PM UTC, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org wrote:
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>>> I wanted to know if I could boot OI using Grub2 on Q4OS before actual
>>> installing OI on my system. And if it's possible could you give me a
>>> working config for grub.cfg? Thanks.
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>> Having no idea (sorry) what q4os is, OI needs a special zfs-aware build of grub 0.97 fork shipped with it, or lately BSD Loader. Grub2 likely not, unless they came up with a compatible zfs ritual; illumos did not explore that AFAIK.
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>> Jim
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> Hi. This is Q4OS: https://q4os.org/
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> It seems Grub2 supports ZFS already: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E28983/gkvif.html
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> I only need Grub2, not Grub. I use only this version of Grub2 of Q4OS to boot all other OSes on my system, including Windows.
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> Almost forgot, my system is UEFI.
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