Fun.  Thanks for the confirmation!

-Dustin

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 29 March 2016 at 13:33, Dustin Marquess <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is it safe to assume that SmartOS does not currently support booting
> from UEFI w/o CSM?
>
> For the time being, that's still true.  You will need firmware that
> provides an emulated BIOS boot environment.
>
> Some work in the illumos community is on-going to get an updated,
> EFI-capable boot loader.  Further work is tentatively on the horizon
> after that for actual in-OS support for booting in a purely EFI
> system.
>
> > I tried hacking it up using the GRUB2 from Solaris 11.3 and the
> kernel/boot_archive from SmartOS, but it would just eventually hang on
> trying to stop EFI services...
> 
> That almost certainly isn't going to work without more work done in
> illumos itself.
> 
> Sorry that there isn't a better answer at this time.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --
> Joshua M. Clulow
> UNIX Admin/Developer
> http://blog.sysmgr.org
> 



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