Hello, folks.
The work on porting FreeBSD loader to illumos-gate has been recently
integrated. It is going to appear in /hipster repository soon.
This concerns all OpenIndiana Hipster users. Briefly, when you update to
the latest OpenIndiana Hipster AND do beadm activate,
grub will be replaced with loader.
Loader fixes a lot of issues (most annoying is the limit on the count of
boot environments) and brings in support for new features,
like support for booting from raidz, but after installing loader to
activate older BEs (which don't have loader userland binaries) you'll
have to interact with loader (i.e. have console access). Newer BEs,
which have loader userland bits, can be safely activated.
If you have console access, to load old (pre-loader) BE, you can do from
loader prompt:
ok beadm activate bename
ok load -t rootfs /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
ok boot
where "ok" is a loader prompt.
To keep grub as your current loader, you can create file /etc/default/be
with the following line:
BE_HAS_GRUB=true
Note, that in future grub support will be completely removed from
illumos-gate.
Detailed announcement about loader integration can be found here:
https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182181/2016/09/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/0:1/20160923124232:B7978ED4-81AC-11E6-A6DA-02E3F010038B/
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