Hello Darren, This one, ok, was a validate thought/question -- On Solaris, root pools cannot have EFI labels (the boot firmware doesn't support booting from them). http://blog.yucas.info/2008/11/26/zfs-boot-solaris/
But again, this is a ZFS discussion, and obvously EFI is not a ZFS, or even Sun thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface Hence, on ZFS turf, I would offer the following comment, in the notion of innovation, not trashing EFI. The ZFS design point is to "make IT simple", so EFI or not EFI can be debate-able. http://kerneltrap.org/node/6884 ;-) best, z ----- Original Message ----- From: "A Darren Dunham" <ddun...@taos.com> To: <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Questions about OS 2008.11 partitioning scheme > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:49:27AM -0700, cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: >> My wish for this year is to boot from EFI-labeled disks so examining >> disk labels is mostly unnecessary because ZFS pool components could be >> constructed as whole disks, and the unpleasant disk >> format/label/partitioning experience is just a dim memory... > > Is there any non-EFI hardware that would support EFI boot? > > -- > Darren > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
