On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Dan McDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 1, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
>>
>> It looks like Solaris 11 supports booting from an EFI-labled rpool now;
>> given grub is GPL, presumably they had to release the modifications to do
>> that? I wonder how cleanly they would integrate into illumos, it would be
>> nice to get away from the requirement for SMI labels on rpool.
>
> ISTR S11 switched to GRUB2. That would be interesting, but a non-trivial
> testing task, to say the least.
Thats correct. I believe Seth did a large chunk of that work.
I'd like to investigate another alternative altogether -- the BSD licensed
loader that FreeBSD uses. I just haven't had cycles. :-)
- Garrett
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> Dan
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