Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:44:01 -0400 From: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?M=26S_-_Krasznai_Andr=E1s?= <Krasznai.Andras@mands.hu>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dual-booting windows 7 and freebsd 10 from gpt partition SSD Message-ID: <532C8871.9000404@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: <3B0F582294DE3E448963BA62DC306AEE31B45D4F8B@exchange.mands.hu> References: <3B0F582294DE3E448963BA62DC306AEE31B45D4F8B@exchange.mands.hu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2014-03-21 03:47, M&S - Krasznai András wrote: > hi > > I have been using freebsd and windows 7 on mbr partitioned hdd (using easybcd on windows to manipulate boot menu and boot code). > > recently I bought an new machine with Intel I7 processor, uefi bios, ssd and installed windows 7 64-bit first. > > after that I installed freebsd 10 (amd64); I used guided partitioning, which created a 64-kB freebsd-boot partition, a 48GB / partition and a swap about 2.5 GB. > > > Then I tried to set up booting by the same method: install easybcd in windows, then set up boot menu with easybcd, add an entry freebsd as BSD/FreeBSD type entry, but this time I am not able to get it work. > > Win 7 boots OK, but freebsd does not start, the windows boot manager complains about missing or corrupt boot block, which is definitely on the given full path. > > How can I get a working dual booting system in this case? Can anbody help me? > > Regards > Krasznai András > rendszermérnök > M&S Informatikai Zrt. > 1136 Budapest, Pannónia u. 17/A. > Telefon: +36 1 703-2923 > Mobil: +36 30 703-2923 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If I recall correctly, Windows will only boot a GPT partition if uEFI is enabled, and FreeBSD cannot boot uEFI (yet). I have only successfully dual booted using 2 different drives and using the BIOS boot selection menu, with the BIOS set to uEFI/CSM fallback mode, so that it uses uEFI for the Windows disk and CSM for the FreeBSD disk. Although, I didn't really try that hard, as I had the two drives and it worked. -- Allan Jude [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTLIh0AAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfeBYP/2JCvpuQLmmxrPQl0E+1iV9Q zGZTvYv1bA4sX4DMRXsTnXF0oVyiAQK/NiamcIsaY0r67Jje1rbK/DiIypdcwxbL unQTaKvb/1Zxn0HAIT0S5nUReu3JH0fafq4NpA7uKj+zZ4te3bYMRGozlAIi6RB9 U/V82P1iMVvoJy7ZoHCgTYv7HAyedY7LMFyp4F1sOW+uJTme63HReNq48Fkdyrvr ZMd3aRCQvEIE/y6qcJ+OAV3Gug8TtK5/aUcWqlEtif225u6/ianl4j0SbR43DgRi eTc4LjYN8EKEaa7NqIbdJH9+KlDWRS5WLSpKb5YY1P8PJcxf1mnOD852bJG4gnb5 32jfitzLyh0RVtJ+14cdf27reYCIH+vN1Zzt+aRAxkFGpTmM0xp4g2vXb22BT4oR ceI9RuXv33GZ9KdLE7BHpBv9s0m7zRHyK2p+daGXwZSB/PaV6tUJezo53GlaOVXt RtHd778lY5dZVW0vuZZ9krf4xyufVjE+13Ic74Ebg2HfOQSdiJEPaNwk92V5SCUK w6PPZJQvKxwIxr5Zyr1WP7Et/Ml3XMvsi6CuNsCVP4MzEZ8ORfZeWgPyuAH3/h8W zr0XwvqpgAfH4kkvjHVQbBEYeQ1/Cikx/pGkW41lPzHK7gGIPt1yOMLswzCgYQPb Eml9H5/Y3QHk0AqHh1lP =46GZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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