> 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.
Have any of you ever tried the ZFS Boot Menu? I heard good things about it, thinking of trying it. Best! 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 > ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T6c1d3abbcce146a4-Md3c9ee656cf9f76e023f646e Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
