Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:28:49 -0500 (EST) From: DTD <support@safeport.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: stuck duel booting win-10 and FreeBSD 10.3 [solved] Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1711231945230.82587@bucksport.safeport.com>
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With a lot of help from friends
First I gave up on 10.3. The problem IN 10.3 was I could not mount the FreeBSD
partition created by install, getting:
root@:~ # mount /dev/ada0p10 /mnt
mount: /dev/ada0p10: Invalid argument
As I did this tree times with the same result and I have been using FreeBSD on
laptops since 4.5 I'm thinking there is better than an even chance I did not
make the same mistake three times. As far as I could tell install I never had a
problem. It just did not make the system bootable. Eventually I was pointed to
commands that verified that [at least] the first part of the FreeBSD partition
was corrupted. At that point I gave up on 10.3 and installed 11.1
The 11.1 install went fine and I could mount the partitions from the install
shell. So how to get it to boot was the only issue. First I had to disable
secure boot. I used the usb image for 11.1, a blessing as that boots about as
fast as from disk. From the EFI wiki (I think) I found the following link:
http://kev009.com/wp/2016/07/freebsd-uefi-root-on-zfs-and-windows-dual-boot/
The part about installing zfs is not relavent (unless you want it) the latter
instructions given below work. At the end or this process I still could not boot
FreeBSD, coming the the statement that
"You should be greeted by refind, otherwise take a look through your
firmware boot order and make sure the firmware nvram for Windows
Bootmanager isn't first."
Here I used EasyUEFI to list and reorder the UFI boot entries putting the disk
entry before the windows one. That did it. I never found anything in the Lenovo
BIOS that would do this.
The instructions for installing rEFInd follow:
1. disable secure boot (necessary for me on Lenovo)
2. Install refind
cd /tmp
unzip refind-bin-0.10.3.zip
rm refind-bin-0.10.3.zip
mkdir /tmp/efi
mount_msdosfs /dev/gpt/EFI%20system%20partition /tmp/efi/
cd /tmp/efi/EFI/Boot
mv bootx64.efi bootx64-windows-10.efi
cp /boot/boot1.efi bootx64-freebsd.efi
cp -a /tmp/refind-bin-0.10.3/refind/icons .
cp -a /tmp/refind-bin-0.10.3/refind/refind_x64.efi bootx64.efi
cp /tmp/refind-bin-0.10.3/refind/refind.conf-sample refind.conf
3. Configure refind and add menu entries
Configure refind and add menu entries
cat << EOF >> refind.conf
menuentry "FreeBSD/amd64 -CURRENT" {
loader \EFI\Boot\bootx64-freebsd.efi
icon \EFI\Boot\icons\os_freebsd.png
}
menuentry "Windows 10 Professional x64" {
loader \EFI\Boot\bootx64-windows-10.efi
icon \EFI\Boot\icons\os_win.png
}
EOF
4. Finish, reboot and enjoy!
cd
umount /tmp/efi
reboot
For me step four just rebooted windows. I used EasyUEFI as noted above. I had
previously installed that trying to install rEFInd from the windows side. I
never got that to work.
If you want windows 10 + FreeBSD, I think this is the way to install rEFInd.
This has the added advantage of being able to boot almost any combinations of
operating systems.
This procedure only works with windows 10 as I do not know how to reorder the
UFI boot entries. I lucked out that EasyUEFI did this for me. That missing
piece would be most useful.
_____
Douglas Denault
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