FreeBSD ZFS on UEFI support just landed

[Beastie7]

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=294068

wo0t!

 

[pkubaj]

And it's supposed to be merged in time for 10.3-RELEASE. I wonder if bsdinstall support will follow in time.

 

[SirDice]

It's going to be a tight schedule if this is going to be included in 10.3-RELEASE. I do hope it gets there on time.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/schedule.html

 

[Beastie7]

Allan Jude is working on plugging it in with BEs and the bsdinstaller currently. GELI support on UEFI is also being worked on as well. From their tweets it look to be trivial merging.

 

[forquare]

Allan Jude is working on plugging it in with BEs and the bsdinstaller currently. GELI support on UEFI is also being worked on as well. From their tweets it look to be trivial merging.

Allan and Kris were talking about it on last weeks BSDNow episode, specifically between 19:30–26:30. Here are the relevant show notes (copied from the link):

• It’s been in phabricator for a while (and PC-BSD), but the support for Boot-Environments has now landed upstream in -CURRENT
• This work was helped by cross-project collaboration when an IllumOS Developer, Toomas Soome, started porting the FreeBSD loader to IllumOS to replace GRUB there
• This gives Beastie menu the ability to look at the ZFS disk, and dynamically list boot-environments that it finds. (Much nicer than GRUB, which required a pre-written configuration file)
• This work was extended further, when Toomas Soome also ported the Beastie Menu to the UEFI loader which is now enabled by default for UEFI
• All of these changes are scheduled to be merged back in time for FreeBSD 10.3 as well.
• There is also a patch being worked on to support booting from ZFS in UEFI
• This is exciting times for doing neat things with ZFS on root, these plus Allans forthcoming GELI support will negate the necessity for GRUB on PC-BSD for example (Kris is very happy)