Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:31:18 +0000 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: EFI and GPT status Message-ID: <CAOc73CAiSWER8w-gBhDTYfPuKCgrF05v59DQXDBO2YJCLPGgTg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGwOe2bMFD4e2dz_dVwS7KcH10w55ARv=KW2JVC8ARxVDUPeGQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGwOe2ZfrxmOGwZnotygYLCjFma2ZjHEuhhYMEYpGKZiNweGOg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGwOe2YrhQAUHGn5DFu3k7f0XhhK3=fyWPpK1TkjEgNeNkwzNg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGwOe2bMFD4e2dz_dVwS7KcH10w55ARv=KW2JVC8ARxVDUPeGQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa <fernando.apesteguia@gma= il.com> wrote: > Hi, > > What's the status of EFI and GPT support on FreeBSD? I would like to trip= le > boot windows 10 + FreeBSD 10 + Linux everything installed on a single dis= k. > Is it possible? > > If not with GPT, would it be better to fall back to compatibility mode an= d > MBR partition scheme? > > Has anyone played with this? > > Thanks in advance. > I dual boot my laptop with Windows and FreeBSD using a single hard drive. I find the easiest way is creating 2 new GPT partitions (1 for ZFS and 1 for swap). I then manually copy the FreeBSD EFI boot loader to my EFI partition, by mounting the existing EFI partition that comes with the laptop as msdosfs to /mnt, copying /boot/boot1.efi to /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi. Lastly, I install refind on my efi partition to allow me to select between the Windows EFI loader and the FreeBSD EFI loader at boot time. http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ Regards, Ben --=20 -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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