From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 26 07:29:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E99E259D for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:29:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x235.google.com (mail-wg0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 73F12660DE for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:29:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f53.google.com with SMTP id l18so13832131wgh.26 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 23:29:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=9dglTf3SPsupkeRz7YqDhBMjwFki0sMrG+6b9j0ylWQ=; b=uvJRww1dWR09JkQHOrB8Lp0VMOOnqPqi5hDpFRyqD+TKxSJ3l7059nP/qIk/zB8fSf 10K2fT5OvFyhrwYmh8WEOftJWU+v0hOuVsiMJOVvhlhXdQl9v6R6SS/iH+/vMFyT2Pak VQaawuLhd4uClA1Y5f60sAmcasEimc4oLBKWxiuMiqrr71yt4IlsYLDrZTYEVYKbVkGH V8OU6XpWwJ6SkjV0fJpHSIoUpvrYre0Vx5yxDcLeBx4Yb5B4p2R6xLXuW/7tgi0x1tD8 vtWaaqbMUiItr9DH9J8oDiyHZeOM+cJ/zU5Yp8hnMIcnPun4byMZ+HijMAWGNDmW5XrJ TIDA== X-Received: by 10.180.24.167 with SMTP id v7mr68332554wif.5.1419578991749; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 23:29:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (host86-153-214-89.range86-153.btcentralplus.com. [86.153.214.89]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r3sm27280785wic.10.2014.12.25.23.29.51 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 25 Dec 2014 23:29:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by kontrol.kode5.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 17F8F4334; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:29:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:29:50 +0000 From: James Griffin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI Message-ID: <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: x-operating-system: FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE amd64 x-pgp-fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38 x-pgp-key: 1D31DC38 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:29:55 -0000 Christian Baer wrote on Thu 25.Dec'14 at 17:54:10 +0100 > Hi everyone! > > For the first time, I am trying to get FreeBSD to run on a machine with > UEFI. Thought I might go modern. :-) > > This time I installed Windows 7 first. However, I did not find any step > during installation where I could install a boot manager to choose if I > wanted to run Windows or FreeBSD. Currently, the only way I can choose > the OS now is to use the Mobos EFI boot manager, which of course is not > the way I want to go. > > It seems that I am walking on pretty much untouched soil here. There is > no mention of a boot manager in the Handbook and even a searchengine > doesn't find anything useful if UEFI is part of the search criteria. > > Is what I am trying to do really that exotic? What do I have to look out > for? > > Best regards, > Chris As long as you have a part of the disk for FreeBSD, when you install FreeBSD it will provide its own bootmanager. This is what works best. I wouldn't bother trying to get Windows to do this.