Is there a way to directly access the EFI partition from a running OmniOS instance (no zones)? I tried the suggested command in pcfs(4) but was told there wasn't a boot partition on the disk. I see it when I boot into EFI shell, so I know it exists.

"mount: /dev/dsk/c1t4d0p0:boot is not a DOS filesystem."

Yes, just add `s0` to the device and mount it as PCFS

pfexec mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c6t589CFC20095F0001d0s0 /a

for example

I tried that last night.

; please mount -o ro /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0 /mnt

mount: /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0 is not this fstype

you need the `-F pcfs` too

yeah, I tried that but did it wrong. This time it worked.

I tried so many combinations and permutations I lost track.

sadly, the log file that's in /EFI isn't showing up :(

(I know its there, I can see it when I boot into EFI shell.)

actually, it might be in the directory above EFI. I'm going to go back to EFI shell and see if I can move it.

That's strange. There s a log storage area in the EFI variable store, I wonder if that's what shows up in the shell?

Give me a few minutes and I'll know :)

IPMI is useful at times.

yeah, EFI shell shows the log file as being at the same level as the EFI directory.

:/

moving the files into the EFI directory didn't make them visible in the mounted filesystem.

even moving them into the same directory as bootia32.efi and bootx64.efi doesn't make them visible.

I guess I'm driving in with a USB key.

fs0 might not have mapped to t4, it might have been t5.

ah well. I'm going to say "it's too early to think" and move on.

:/ Looks like there might be a driver problem with this HBA. I presume that's an illumos bug report, not an OmniOS one.

(as in, newer driver is needed)

What's the HBA?

Boradcom 3108

specifically the 'invader'

The host booted and 'worked' with the driver in the LTS release but it's logging a lot of errors and the device says a driver update is needed "to enable extended LD support"

I've just upgraded the host in question to 151044. I suspect I should clear the device logs and see what shows up.

Hmm. Less certain on that one then.

well, I found it

the mr_sas version reports 6.503.00.00

The version I need is 7.723.02-00-1.

so I guess I need to file a bug report with illumos.

This is going to cause me some grief :(

Well, illumos.org/issues/15302 has been created.

hopefully I provided sufficient information.

andyf, danmcd_, please poke me with any updates that need to be made to that ticket.

OK, so the firmware is reporting that.

The version number we have is kind of meaningless.

So it really is about figuring out what that support is and implementing it.

that's disapointing.

Sorry, I'd rather be up front and honest with you.

of course

I'm just sitting here with a file server that I can't put into production until this is resolved.

I'm not a kernel dev (I'm not even a dev) so I've no idea how much work is involved in this.

I just think "it's non-trivial".

It is a bit hard because the mr_sas series historically hasn't been well documented.