tsoome: Sorry, should be unstuck now.

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jclulow thanks!:)

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Playing with some old hardware is kicking my arse. IBM X3550 M3, maxed out with dual X5690 cpus, 288GB RAM, and an LSI 1068E flashed to IT mode with 8 x 120GB Samsung 850 Pros. A solid box for 15yrs ago. I can boot an Omni install stick, make an rpool, install, all is good.

I can't get it to boot the install. Box is UEFI, no secureboot, and when I look for a bootloader I can find EFI directories, but no actual boot files?

When I'm in OmniOS, I don't know how to find /EFI/Boot to poke at it.

i don't think any of the distros mount it on the running system by default

if you look at your boot pool (most likely rpool) and the disk(s) in it

it's probably slice 0

the installer (I'm guessing it's just running 'installboot') should just stick bootx64.efi in \efi\boot...

though I have seen where other OSes (like redhat) muck up the efi env vars

i think even off the ISO, if you drop to the bootloader (hit esc)

you should be able to examine the variables to see what they are

Based on Ubuntu not being able to add an entry to the bootorder, I'm guessing the efi vars are garbo on this box.

Kurlon_ - Something like gist.github.com/citrus-it/66e7b3cfaccb1082818c1222657f0492

if tsoome is around, he probably knows better than anyone how to mess w/ those from the bootloader

On that example VM, the hypervisor doesn't provide nvram so UEFI ends up storing the variables in the `NvVars` file in that partition.

If it's a bhyve VM on OmniOS, you can reset the variables with `zadm efireset <zone>`

IIRC, you define the EFI applications to run as BootNNNN (i.e. 'Boot0000=<UEFI device path>/File(\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi)

(it _must_ by 4 digits long)

and then there's a 'BootOrder' variable that defines the order to try the entries (e.g. BootOrder=0000,0001,....)

if you can boot to a UEFI shell, you can use 'map -b' (-b paginates the results) to see what devices are there -- any UEFI boot partitions it sees will show up as FS0, FS1, etc

you can switch to them (e.g. 'fs0:' -- the uefi shell feels a lot like command.com :P)

use dir

etc

cd \efi\boot

and if you can see the bootx64.efi

you can run it from there

A built in UEFI shell would be so nice... got one on a stick around here somewhere.

it depends on the manufacturer -- a lot of times it's included as a part of the UEFI firmware image

Sadly neither IBM nor HP bothered on this generation of server.

we usually do not mount ESP, this is because in server environment, you have redundant disks in boot pool and then you have ESP in each of them (to make it possible to boot from alternate disk)

and our current setup is refreshing boot blocks/programs on each boot pool disk automatically based on version information

Ok, IMM kinda functioning, got remote console over telnet, web int won't get past login.

And... need an old browser 'cause modern ones don't allow secure session cookies over http.

Need an old util to generate a cert and get https going

Ok, remote console working, now to poke.

andyf: No valid FAT on slice 0 on any of my disks.

Doing a clean install, one disk, to see what things look like.

Clean install letting the installer make rpool, no valid FAT on slice 0.

UEFI shell next, see what it's view of the world is.

Well that's strange, assuming you left UEFI selected in the installer. I forget exactly what the option shows up as but it's the default.

I'm not getting a choice, I'm getting the older installer, dd iso to thumbstick is the only method I've had boot fully.

UEFI shell, it sees the EFI part on the disk, has EFI and Boot dirs, but no boot loader file.

"zpool create -B ..." is the thing that makes the ESP (FAT) slice, right

at pool creation time

If you "pfexec fstyp /dev/dsk/c1t0025385C9150D623d0s0" (or similar, with s0 at the end) you should see "pcfs"

for "s1" you should see "zfs"

If not, something has definitely gone awry

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So, created rpool using -B, fstyp s0 is unknown, s1 is zfs.

Ok, now it's showing pcfs post install.

Boot entry did not get created.

But, I've got bootx64.efi this time.

And I'm in.

And my horrible bnx eth is working.

tsoome: does -B create and format the ESP, or just create it?

it just creates the partition

you still have to mkfs it or i think installboot might do it

actually looking at installboot, it does appear it will mkfs the ESP partition if needed

ok, that should explain the "unknown" from fstyp then

it really would be, at that point

rather than something having gone wrong, and then fixed itself