On Wednesday, 20 August 2025, at 6:33 PM, Atiq Rahman wrote: > Have any of you ever tried the ZFS Boot Menu? I heard good things about it, > thinking of trying it.
yes, on Arch Linux several times and it works to close the gap to *beadm* on Solarish: https://florianesser.ch/posts/20220714-arch-install-zbm/ user@arch ~ % mkdir -p /efi/EFI/zbm user@arch ~ % wget https://get.zfsbootmenu.org/latest.EFI -O /efi/EFI/zbm/zfsbootmenu.EFI user@arch ~ % efibootmgr --disk $DISK --part 1 --create --label "ZFSBootMenu" --loader '\EFI\zbm\zfsbootmenu.EFI' --unicode "spl_hostid=$(hostid) zbm.timeout=3 zbm.prefer=rpool zbm.import_policy=hostid" --verbose user@arch ~ % zfs set org.zfsbootmenu:commandline="noresume init_on_alloc=0 rw spl.spl_hostid=$(hostid)" rpool/ROOT ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T6c1d3abbcce146a4-Mc4a4e504228f3c02ee52ed48 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
