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

Discussion:

zeitraffer

2018-05-05 09:10:13 UTC

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 seen 3 partitions, but the boot one is not of FAT
type, so UEFI cannot boot from it.
What am I doing wrong? Does OI support UEFI currently?

Alexander Pyhalov

2018-05-07 07:45:10 UTC

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Post by zeitraffer
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 seen 3 partitions, but the boot one is not of FAT
type, so UEFI cannot boot from it.
What am I doing wrong? Does OI support UEFI currently?

--
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department

zeitraffer

2018-05-07 16:19:11 UTC

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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.

Post by zeitraffer

Post by zeitraffer
Hello!
The current documentation does not claim that current OI supports UEFI,

but

Post by zeitraffer
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

Post by zeitraffer
onto the GPT drive.
After installation I have seen 3 partitions, but the boot one is not of

FAT

Post by zeitraffer
type, so UEFI cannot boot from it.
What am I doing wrong? Does OI support UEFI currently?

Hello.
UEFI boot support is not finished. OI can boot in UEFI mode, but
a) illumos-gate currently lacks support of UEFI vga console (so you are
limited to serial console and X11)
b) installation images currently can boot in UEFI mode, but installer
doesn't perform all steps to create correct UEFI image. You'll have to
manually create pcfs on EFI system partition and copy /boot/loader.efi
to /efi/boot/bootx64.efi on system partition.
--
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department

Andrey Sokolov

2018-07-04 20:25:06 UTC

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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..."
Loading Image...

How can I determine the cause of the hang?

Post by Alexander Pyhalov

Michal Nowak

2018-07-04 20:34:11 UTC

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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: https://openqa.oi.mnowak.cz/tests/3359#step/bootloader_mate/3. Or
change the serial console and interact with the dialog from there. But
you are probably more lucky with BIOS/Legacy mode.

Michal

Post by Alexander Pyhalov
illumos-gate currently lacks support of UEFI vga console (so you are
limited to serial console and X11

Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss

2018-05-07 16:45:32 UTC

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Would you mind documenting what you did on the wiki? I'm sure it would be useful to many otehrs.

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On Mon, 5/7/18, zeitraffer <***@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?
To: "Alexander Pyhalov" <***@rsu.ru>
Cc: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-***@openindiana.org>
Date: Monday, May 7, 2018, 11:19 AM

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

On 05/05/18

12:10 PM, zeitraffer wrote:
Hello!

Post by zeitraffer
The current documentation

does not claim that current OI supports UEFI,

but

Post by zeitraffer
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

Post by zeitraffer
onto the GPT drive.
After installation I have seen 3

partitions, but the boot one is not of
FAT

Post by zeitraffer
type, so UEFI cannot boot from

it.

Post by zeitraffer
What am I doing wrong? Does OI

support UEFI currently?

Hello.
UEFI boot

support is not finished. OI can boot in UEFI mode, but

a) illumos-gate currently lacks support of

UEFI vga console (so you are

limited to

serial console and X11)

b) installation

images currently can boot in UEFI mode, but installer

doesn't perform all steps to create

correct UEFI image. You'll have to
manually create pcfs on EFI system partition and copy
/boot/loader.efi

/efi/boot/bootx64.efi on system partition.

--
Best regards,

Alexander Pyhalov,

system administrator

of Southern Federal University IT department
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