Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:34:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: EFI and GPT status Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1607192032130.85755@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CAiSWER8w-gBhDTYfPuKCgrF05v59DQXDBO2YJCLPGgTg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGwOe2ZfrxmOGwZnotygYLCjFma2ZjHEuhhYMEYpGKZiNweGOg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGwOe2YrhQAUHGn5DFu3k7f0XhhK3=fyWPpK1TkjEgNeNkwzNg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGwOe2bMFD4e2dz_dVwS7KcH10w55ARv=KW2JVC8ARxVDUPeGQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAOc73CAiSWER8w-gBhDTYfPuKCgrF05v59DQXDBO2YJCLPGgTg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Ben Woods wrote: > On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What's the status of EFI and GPT support on FreeBSD? I would like to triple >> boot windows 10 + FreeBSD 10 + Linux everything installed on a single disk. >> Is it possible? >> >> If not with GPT, would it be better to fall back to compatibility mode and >> 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/ I do a similar thing, but my UEFI Dell notebooks allow setting each EFI boot loader as a menu entry. So no additional software is needed. 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