From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 20 02:34:56 2016 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 D78EEB9FEDB for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A549A194C for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id u6K2YtGZ038476 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:34:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id u6K2YtVo038469; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:34:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:34:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Ben Woods cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= , User Questions Subject: Re: EFI and GPT status In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:34:55 -0600 (MDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:34:56 -0000 On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Ben Woods wrote: > On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Fernando Apesteguía > 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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