> 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 > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
