From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 15:03:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00516FC2 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACD3818F0 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5yKd-0006RJ-Fv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:03:35 +0100 Received: from p4fddd6bc.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.221.214.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:03:35 +0100 Received: from christian.baer by p4fddd6bc.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:03:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christian Baer Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:03:22 +0100 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fddd6bc.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:03:45 -0000 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