On 4/12/16 9:13 , Dirk Steinberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as far as I can see, the currently included version of GRUB
> in SmartOS only supports legacy-booting.

That is correct.

> Does an EFI-enabled version of GRUB for SmartOS/Illumos exist
> or is being worked on?

Supporting EFI booting is something that's being worked on in the
broader illumos community.

> Maybe one could just rip a modern version of GRUB out of
> a Linux distro and use that, as long as it includes ZFS support…
> OTOH I seem to remember having read that GRUB2 cannot
> boot Illumos, but I am not sure about that?

I do not expect that to work, because we would still use BIOS based
queries which would not be answered.

Robert



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