Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:03:22 +0100 From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI Message-ID: <m7uerq$nlm$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412281227150.86113@wonkity.com> References: <m7hfff$hno$1@ger.gmane.org> <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> <m7p8r5$jiv$1@ger.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412281227150.86113@wonkity.com>
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Am 28.12.2014 um 20:40 schrieb Warren Block: > UEFI is a whole new game, utterly different from what came before. And > FreeBSD's UEFI support is new. As far as I know, it has no provision > for multibooting in UEFI. Code to do that would be welcome, it's been > difficult just to get the current UEFI support. Yes, I've read about that and the fact that it has been quite hard. This actually did surprise me a bit, considering that UEFI has been around for a while now. > Your boot menu suggests that Windows 7 is installed for standard BIOS > booting. This sentence actually rather suggests that you have not read my post (properly) before answering. Please don't get me wrong! I appreciate any help anyone offers me and I will not complain if noone can help me or if the ideas someone had don't lead to the desired result. In this case, I really went out of my way to make it overly clear, that I was booting me computer in EFI mode and that the boot menu is from the mainboard's firmware and offered before a single access to the SDD has been made. I would get this boot loader (or boot menu) if I removed all drives from my system and pressed F12 while starting the system. Why would you therefore assume I have installed an EFI FreeBSD on an BIOS system? I have never tried that, so I don't know if that would even work. > The easiest way to deal with this is to reinstall FreeBSD for > standard BIOS booting also, with an MBR format. Then you can install > the boot0 multiboot program, but it really doesn't offer anything that > the BIOS boot menu does not already have. To do that, I'd also have to reinstall Windows because currently everything is in EFI mode. And it does offer a little something that I currently do not have: More time. If I miss the right moment, I can't choose the OS, the computer just boots up Windows as this is the default and I cannot set the default to FreeBSD. > Please also consider running FreeBSD as a VM with one of the many > virtualization options. That has many advantages over multiboot setups. I have actually considered this and decided not to do it. Best regards, Chris
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