On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:57:12AM -0800, Michele Codutti via smartos-discuss wrote:
> I'm sorry to resurrect this post but I did my homework and tried what Matthew > said and some other things ... but without luck.I did some exensive research > on the subject before replying to this mail. > From what I understood I cannot boot directly smartos (or any illumos kernel) > from refit/refind are boot managers and not boot loaders (they can only boot > efi stubs and not kernels or ramdisks). > > So I must return back to grub2 (that is a full fledged) boot loader. > > The problem with grub2 is that when it boots in efi mode requires that the > (multiboot) kernel "handles" the console by itself (this is what I undestood > I don't pretend do explain anything of this complicated efi boot problem). So > the message "WARNING: the console will be unavailable to the OS" is a > diagnostic message that grub2 emits when the kernel loaded had not this > feature. What console device are you trying to use? Certainly we don't (and hopefully never will) support an "EFI console" or other firmware-driven console device. > It seems also that this is not a problem that grub could sove by itself, > illumos needs to implement this "functionality" and I cannot gamble in any > way. Another option would be to use a serial console. I do not know if the Mac Mini has a standard serial port header onboard; many if not most embedded systems do. > The problem is strictly a mac one because apple efi doesn't provide bios boot > compatibility to usb booting (and all recent macs doesn't have the sata dvd > unit an you must use an externale usb one). > > Any suggestion? There is a development ongoing to pure illumos (u)efi booting? Not really. A couple of people were working on GRUB 2.0, but that's somewhat separate from having the kernel call into firmware. The current model of basically throwing away firmware upon boot is the correct one and we should not change that. ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
