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Feature #5560
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Bug #1945: Import GRUB 0.9.7 patches from Gentoo
grub should support EFI/GPT partitioning
Start date:
2015-01-26
Due date:
% Done:
100%
Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
Gerrit CR:
External Bug:
Description
To support booting from EFI/GPT partitioned disks, grub needs to be able to handle that partition table format. There is a patch from Gentoo which we can use that adds just that functionality, and Richard Yao has already ported that to illumos grub:
https://github.com/ryao/grub-illumos/commit/996a549d647c265aed7a7bf56596505758c9e4a9
Related issues
Updated by Hans Rosenfeld almost 9 years ago
Updated by Electric Monk almost 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 44bc9120699af80bb18366ca474cb2c618608ca9
commit 44bc9120699af80bb18366ca474cb2c618608ca9
Author: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Date: 2015-02-20T22:58:27.000Z
5560 grub should support EFI/GPT partitioning
Reviewed by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Jean McCormack <jean.mccormack@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <josef.sipek@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Updated by Joshua M. Clulow about 7 years ago
- Related to Bug #397: illumos cannot boot from a device with an EFI label added
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