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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Christian Baer wrote:

> 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.

Your boot menu pointed out that FreeBSD was EFI and did not do that for 
Windows.  Also, Windows 7 UEFI installs are rare.

> 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.

Some UEFI systems can attempt legacy BIOS booting and then UEFI, and it 
appeared that Windows 7 was booting in BIOS mode while FreeBSD was 
installed for UEFI.