> On Apr 12, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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?

SmartOS root filesystem is UFS, so ZFS boot support is not required of grub.
 -- richard

> 
> 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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