From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Mar 21 06:12:39 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62AC1F4BEFE for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:12:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE4B7E1B3 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:12:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.5_1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from [212.73.125.240] (HELO admin.sibptus.transneft.ru) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 39960157; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:07:44 +0600 Received: from admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w2L6CYcU073340; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:12:36 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w2L6CVxp073337; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:12:31 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.transneft.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:12:31 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: Trond Endrest?l Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Solved. Re: Dualboot and ZFS Message-ID: <20180321061231.GA73086@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20180116034929.GB89443@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180131082738.GA46395@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <547e65d16ef16667f61d88463ca73079@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> <20180319025914.GA57490@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180319171027.GA84127@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180320094625.GA24463@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:12:39 -0000 Trond Endrest?l wrote: > > > > > > > Besides, I don't know of a small simple boot manager (like boot0) for > > > > GPT. Can you advise one? > > > > > > Try GRUB2 or rEFInd. > > > My laptop is pretty happy about the latter. > > > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ > > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ > > > > I will most certainly look at rEFInd, thank you. > > > > To boot FreeBSD with it, do you follow the procedure described in > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI ? > > No, I took matters into my own hands. > > I first installed the least cooperative OS, Win10. > > I manually installed FreeBSD with ZFS. > > I extracted rEFInd to the ESP. Who created the ESP partition for you? > > I copied the boot1.efi bootloader to a \FreeBSD directory on the ESP. > > I configured rEFInd to suit my needs. > > I configured some boot entries in the UEFI environment of my laptop, > one for each of rEFInd, Windows 10, and FreeBSD, and made the entry > for rEFInd the preferred one. Why do you need rEFInd at all if your laptop's UEFI environment can choose which OS to boot? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859