Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:37:46 -0400 (EDT) From: DTD <doug@safeport.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck duel booting win-10 and FreeBSD 10.3 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1710201622280.1288@bucksport.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1710190053340.59952@bucksport.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1710190053340.59952@bucksport.safeport.com>
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, DTD wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 10.3 on a Lenovo Ideapad 700. I was following
> some instructions to set up duel-boot with rEFInd Boot Manager and EasyUEFI.
> For whatever reason this did not work. I have FreeBSD installed, but the EFI
> code was not put where it needs to be. I have tried to use the shell to mount
> the disk to copy the code where it needs to go. I can not figure out a mount
> command.
>
> Using windows 10 diskpart, gpart and sysctl I put constructed the following
> map of the disk:
>
> Partition ### Type Size Offset
> ------------- --------- ------- -------
> Partition 1 System 260 MB 1024 KB ada0p1 C: Windows boot
> Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 261 MB ada0p2
> Partition 3 Primary 446 GB 277 MB ada0p3 Windows NTFS
> Partition 8 Unknown 4096 MB 446 GB ada0p8 freebsd-swap
> Partition 9 Unknown 512 KB 450 GB ada0p9 freebsd-boot
> Partition 10 Unknown 438 GB 450 GB ada0p10 FreeBSD freebsd-ufs
> Partition 4 Primary 25 GB 889 GB ada0p4
> Partition 5 Recovery 1000 MB 914 GB ada0p5
> Partition 6 Recovery 14 GB 915 GB ada0p6
> Partition 7 OEM 1000 MB 930 GB ada0p7
[cut]
> The installer can mount and write the disk just file. I have installed this 3
> different ways to try and coax the install into writing boot code somewhere.
>
> So ... what's the magic command to mount the BSD partition? I am also not
> sure if the EFI boot code just gets added to ada0p1. ada0p9 is a boot
> partition added by the current install. Is FBSD 11 more likely to work?
I (think I)have narrowed this down to a more specific question. Will it work if
I use gpart to wite the boot code? I can do this because I can take the code
from a working system. That only leaves which boot code and where? An example of
a working command would seem to be:
gpart bootcode -p /tmp/gptboot -i [1|9] ada0
where I copy gptboot from another 10.3 system. Who get it. I though 1 or 9 not
10.
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