New Tribblix release tribblix.org/download.html

ptribble Nice!

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html seems like additional motivation for tsoome's proposed removal of the unused grub code

though I don't know how many affect the older version you have

not too many, the suspects may be things like integer overflow

the advantage of removal is you don't need to care which do and don't affect you 8-)

yep.

if I remember the state of grub is that nobody wants to use it and we all want to delete it, but potentially omnios have users

and also nobody wants to untangle the bootadm/etc mess

most especially me

That doesn't stop it being removed though. OmniOS has branches so it just ends up being removed in the next LTS release or something.

It was the second line that has stopped me

:)

I'm pretty sure all of my OmniOS boxes use grub. What should I be using instead?

Too Many Spinning Plates.

the bootloader from FreeBSD that tsoome ported to illumos

I could spend a few hours researching or I can be lazy and ask here... is there an easy way to check? :)

loader draws an ascii bird on the right hand side of the screen, and/or an ascii omnios

grub draws a more central white rectangle

without having to reboot my production fileservers, that is :)

oh

e.g. absence of /etc/grub

I don't have an omnios machine handy, but omnios.org/info/loader suggests you might be able to tell by looking at /etc/default/be

oh... interesting. I don't have an /etc/default/be on the host I just checked. Time to take a look at that URL.

well, given everything I have is considerably newer than r151022, I can't imagine it's still using grub.

ah, it looks like /etc/default/be shouldn't be there if using loader. Ok, mystery semisolved.

nomad: I think, also, that you'll only have an "/system/boot/environment" file available if you're using loader

You can see the contents with, e.g., tr '\0' '\n' < /system/boot/environment

that file does in fact exist.

danke

The curse of "so many plates I don't remember the ones I dealt with last month, let alone years ago" singlesysadmining.

:D