From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 6 08:13:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6139B40D3 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 08:13:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (mail.parts-unknown.org [IPv6:2001:470:67:119::4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9ABE51FB3 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 08:13:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix, from userid 80) id AFC74593E544; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 01:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 2601:645:501:1800:b283:feff:fe96:371c ([2601:645:501:1800:b283:feff:fe96:371c]) by mail.parts-unknown.org (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 01:13:13 -0700 Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 01:13:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20150806011313.Horde.2QXs18DRBiA3e2WofhttL83@mail.parts-unknown.org> From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: windows entry for grub2 References: <20150804034108.Horde._OTrFyjhdRQUM4x9GSp-yLG@mail.parts-unknown.org> <20150804132218.Horde.Gj6WjgZdXie82Uv8hJ6DwzP@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C1418A.8020904@SDF.org> <20150804201540.Horde.tVjfGgqFaL11N353NCxJOb4@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C1AD48.4060004@SDF.org> <20150805021737.Horde.Aqa-ovKXshlnp4t4PUEB8rw@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C2388B.8030803@SDF.org> In-Reply-To: <55C2388B.8030803@SDF.org> User-Agent: Horde Application Framework 5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_ne_lBJ_uGjsUanjZ1f5-VcM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 08:13:14 -0000 This message is in MIME format and has been PGP signed. --=_ne_lBJ_uGjsUanjZ1f5-VcM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Cary : > > > That's all. If you've got it, that will be nice to hear. It was weird. In the past, when I've run into difficulty with EFI boot=20= =20 entries,=20efibootmgr (under Linux) has been my friend. This tool can=20=20 add=20boot entries, change the order in which they are attempted, delete=20= =20 boot=20entries, and probably a few other things. So when grub was still missing, I booted into Linux, ran efibootmgr,=20=20 added=20the entry and tried again. The invocation is very specific. You=20= =20 specify=20the drive *and* the partition the efi file is in. No joy. Any entries I added disappeared by the reboot. And just so=20=20 we're=20clear, rebooting to Linux and running efibootmgr confirmed that=20= =20 the=20entries had disappeared. So I got a Windows recovery disk and tried getting *it* to fix the=20=20 boot.=20I tried just about every option there was on that thing. Still=20= =20 no=20joy. It flatly refused. As to your specific points, the system didn't just come with Windows.=20=20 Dell=20adds a bunch of partitions with various utilities and recovery=20=20 programs.=20But there didn't seem to be any way to access them--unless I=20= =20 got=20grub running. Some of those partitions are msdosfs and I'm pretty=20= =20 sure=20that's what grub-mkconfig was responding to. --=20 David=20Benfell --=_ne_lBJ_uGjsUanjZ1f5-VcM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: PGP Digital Signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJVwxcZAAoJEBV64x4SNmArt+4P/2XaihtBDFzZuUal5h2JUNQq fwR5OvblHos+Ez/lbGpnkjQI8Ki+zEuqAlvo/Ph4gT7H5eZUafFnp4VR9E8uQKJW nq9fV+18Tp3RsbXymycbj+kP8XfQcz2KzqVX9YDbn5XyPJVMqTVxjnDRSRTKXoHM TkXM/Y/Ln/cmXPRmLIxL0rGVjCxW3ryw1EoEjvp3yHazMnLce9rbzeoJfrDcvhZY /wJ4ylqdFaE+cAxM0J08y9eDHGK/4HNGIaNP1Gke2isOEg5WdVdDtkjSkL5PgvoN GxuvNyrmzdmPSS3t3GTrvCH/Cs04mPt1BPxocGLYnR0gTlcPhOVXpEFX0a9N/Mdr 7tDKps7YGElAYPPRnfyQT7wj7NEuxF5XHM7lkEuNQaUzGW2Z9gCDimoS4MpwBNSn cYPb39x4sDTpRN/xlAgJ8MWrbc2vX0siOq4Ohg2yWo6HwvKBOu0qsOVtRGaipNpj 5ZJMkcNwoOVy0jGEjKyGFh4/1H0Ny6nY1PopTc/XAa33MLHKRGME56DblNKXjJAv leWLsmfpeFplv0EUUuKgznk22lVyVtvT86zR80rXLfyT9YOKDDhoz00EQnCGAdaC /ned/rDDK5YkYN+fmkEioY886cpi+FqcHrn5ZXho9i+frI4mQX3+wYtsQCSXL0M6 cXm6YSXMZ5UqpdUkpQbo =f+6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_ne_lBJ_uGjsUanjZ1f5-VcM--