Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2019-01-23 Thread Stephan Althaus
Hi all! i want to share the results of my most recent experiment this is a newish system which supports legay boot only with external drives :-{ so i *need* UEFI.. (*from memory..) 1) i took the usb install image of nov 2018 build by Aurélien Larcher 2) legacy booted the stick and installed oi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2019-01-17 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 13:50, Stephan Althaus wrote: > Surprise > A different OI host has a /boot/boot64.efi file. This file is of Oct 25, > last pkg update to the system was maybe in Nov. > > Question: > Why is the file on the older system, and not on the othe system with an > update about 1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2019-01-17 Thread Stephan Althaus
Hello! Backgound: On a very new system i can't enable legacy boot for internal drives. :-( So i have to enable UEFI boot on an installed legacy boot system. The installed image i would like to use has a /boot/loader64.efi I copied this to the ESP partition as BOOTX64.efi, added it manually to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2018-07-04 Thread Michal Nowak
I believe it is as Alexander said: "illumos-gate currently lacks support of UEFI vga console (so you are limited to serial console and X11". So, if you want to boot in UEFI mode, enable "Enable ssh" mode which skips language/keyboard dialog in VGA console and gets you straight to X11:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2018-07-04 Thread Andrey Sokolov
When I boot in UEFI mode from usb flash drive with this image (http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20180427/OI-hipster-gui-20180427.usb), the system hangs after writing "Booting..." https://pasteboard.co/HsWztUs.jpg How can I determine the cause of the hang? 2018-05-07 10:45 GMT+03:00,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2018-05-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Copying just loader.efi and running it from EFI Shell says "Illumos...(a >few lines)... start not found" and shows "ok" prompt. But copying the whole >/boot/* and running boot1.efi works fine. Thank you. I think it would be nice to give a detailed description of the process so one can reproduce

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2018-05-07 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Would you mind documenting what you did on the wiki? I'm sure it would be useful to many otehrs. On Mon, 5/7/18, zeitraffer <zraf...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support? To: &quo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2018-05-07 Thread zeitraffer
Copying just loader.efi and running it from EFI Shell says "Illumos...(a few lines)... start not found" and shows "ok" prompt. But copying the whole /boot/* and running boot1.efi works fine. Thank you. On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 10:45 Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > On 05/05/18 12:10 PM,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2018-05-07 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
On 05/05/18 12:10 PM, zeitraffer wrote: Hello! The current documentation does not claim that current OI supports UEFI, but I see that the current live disk can boot in UEFI. I have tried to boot it into UEFI and to make install by the text installer onto the GPT drive. After installation I have