Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:13:34 +0200 From: Nikolaj Thygesen <mailinglist@diamondbox.dk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stuck duel booting win-10 and FreeBSD 10.3 Message-ID: <f8b87934-560c-c656-e30a-3f5f62356501@diamondbox.dk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1710201622280.1288@bucksport.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1710190053340.59952@bucksport.safeport.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1710201622280.1288@bucksport.safeport.com>
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On 10/20/2017 22:37, DTD wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, DTD wrote: > >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 10.3 on a Lenovo Ideapad 700. I was >> following some instructions to set up duel-boot with rEFInd Boot >> Manager and EasyUEFI. For whatever reason this did not work. I have >> FreeBSD installed, but the EFI code was not put where it needs to be. >> I have tried to use the shell to mount the disk to copy the code >> where it needs to go. I can not figure out a mount command. >> >> Using windows 10 diskpart, gpart and sysctl I put constructed the >> following map of the disk: >> >> Partition ### Type Size Offset >> ------------- --------- ------- ------- >> Partition 1 System 260 MB 1024 KB ada0p1 C: Windows boot >> Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 261 MB ada0p2 >> Partition 3 Primary 446 GB 277 MB ada0p3 Windows NTFS >> Partition 8 Unknown 4096 MB 446 GB ada0p8 freebsd-swap >> Partition 9 Unknown 512 KB 450 GB ada0p9 freebsd-boot >> Partition 10 Unknown 438 GB 450 GB ada0p10 FreeBSD >> freebsd-ufs >> Partition 4 Primary 25 GB 889 GB ada0p4 >> Partition 5 Recovery 1000 MB 914 GB ada0p5 >> Partition 6 Recovery 14 GB 915 GB ada0p6 >> Partition 7 OEM 1000 MB 930 GB ada0p7 > [cut] > >> The installer can mount and write the disk just file. I have >> installed this 3 different ways to try and coax the install into >> writing boot code somewhere. >> >> So ... what's the magic command to mount the BSD partition? I am also >> not sure if the EFI boot code just gets added to ada0p1. ada0p9 is a >> boot partition added by the current install. Is FBSD 11 more likely >> to work? > > I (think I)have narrowed this down to a more specific question. Will > it work if I use gpart to wite the boot code? I can do this because I > can take the code from a working system. That only leaves which boot > code and where? An example of a working command would seem to be: > > gpart bootcode -p /tmp/gptboot -i [1|9] ada0 > > where I copy gptboot from another 10.3 system. Who get it. I though 1 > or 9 not 10. > > > _____ > Douglas Denault > http://www.safeport.com > doug@safeport.com > Voice: 301-217-9220 > Fax: 301-217-9277 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I successfully did the same a year or two ago. I did most of my fiddling in Win10 as per some youtube video. This *might* be the one; I'm not sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPvt3pQfaw Two of my main obstacles were disabling secure boot in BIOS and making sure to assign some UID to partitions for the boot manager. N :o)
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