Hi Eric, > The "Solaris Root" partition type is relevant to UFS, not ZFS. On UEFI, set s0/p1 to be an ESP, "boot, hidden, esp" flags and format it fat32
Yep, I have done that quite a while ago. Linux is booting alright with that. > your "Solaris Reserved" should be s8/p9, 8Mib, -1MiB from end of disk . That's for legacy / MBR partitions. Mine is GPT. I don't need that or any other partition for Solaris. I only need one single partition of zfs / illumos and that's working so far. > /EFI/OpenIndiana/bootx64.efi (copy of loader.efi) I put mine on /EFI/Solaris/ I might try rEFInd in future. Right now, I'm booting everything using Linux's bootloader. Thanks, Atiq On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM Eric J Bowman <mellowm...@zoho.com> wrote: > > > > parted > mkpart illumos 767GB 100% > > > > and then set the partition type to solaris launching, > > > > $ sudo gdisk /dev/nvme0n1 > > > > (set the GUID to "6A85CF4D-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631" ) > > > > > The "Solaris Root" partition type is relevant to UFS, not ZFS. On UEFI, > set s0/p1 to be an ESP, "boot, hidden, esp" flags and format it fat32, your > "Solaris Reserved" should be s8/p9, 8Mib, -1MiB from end of disk. Your ZFS > partition should be set to ZFS for illumos, FreeBSD ZFS for freebsd. Being > bootable is a property of the ZFS filesystem, not its partition. > > /EFI > /EFI/OpenIndiana/bootx64.efi (copy of loader.efi) > /EFI/boot > > I put rEFInd Plus in /EFI/boot, with a backup of its bootx64.efi in case > it gets overwritten. > > /EFI/boot/drivers/x64_zfs.efi > > This driver will allow rEFInd to stub-load loader64.efi from your ZFS > partition on most firmware, some will still need the > /EFI/OpenIndiana/bootx64.efi. I don't know if the string "OpenIndiana" is > registered, this one is: > > /EFI/FreeBSD > > That's the gist of multiboot on UEFI, more work if you want more than one > illumos or freebsd partition, but they will coexist peacefully. > ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T6c1d3abbcce146a4-Mbe2f97f9fbca160e3826c0f8 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
