Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:16:56 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Subject: Re: EFI and GPT status Message-ID: <CAGwOe2Z-VjCMoQYLkqYyCrZO0UkQwSWH88wysJe-EyZv5x1uqA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1607192032130.85755@wonkity.com> References: <CAGwOe2ZfrxmOGwZnotygYLCjFma2ZjHEuhhYMEYpGKZiNweGOg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGwOe2YrhQAUHGn5DFu3k7f0XhhK3=fyWPpK1TkjEgNeNkwzNg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGwOe2bMFD4e2dz_dVwS7KcH10w55ARv=KW2JVC8ARxVDUPeGQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAOc73CAiSWER8w-gBhDTYfPuKCgrF05v59DQXDBO2YJCLPGgTg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1607192032130.85755@wonkity.com>
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El 20/7/2016 4:34, "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> escribi=C3=B3: > > On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Ben Woods wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa < 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. Thanks for the tips!
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