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Date:      Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:00:47 -0700
From:      David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
To:        CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   FAILED: Re: windows entry for grub2
Message-ID:  <20150805160047.Horde.AEKM3t4jlLIUR_vxQ5Gadrl@mail.parts-unknown.org>
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Quoting CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>:

> David, I am very curious what you can achieve with GRUB.. I hope it
> can also make "one menu to run them all" on my EFI system as well :-)
> :-)
>
> Meanwhile, if you want to restore Windows and FreeBSD access I send
> you my EFI boot partition images - you can DD them in order to recover
> access to the OS that you can select from BIOS Boot Menu :-)

Thanks but I wasn't lacking for files.

I was lacking the magic--magic apparently missing even from the=20=20
Windows=20recovery disk--to make even Windows bootable. This magic *is*=20=
=20
present=20on the FreeBSD install disk, as I discovered when I gave up,=20=
=20
wiped=20the disk, and freshly installed FreeBSD on the whole thing.

I'll install Windows as a virtualbox guest as soon as I get back on=20=20
site=20and download it from Amazon. (Yes, $119 down the toilet.)

By the way, for the folks who've been working so hard on the UEFI=20=20
implementation=20of FreeBSD: It's beautiful. It installed and booted=20=20
perfectly=20(and yes, under the circumstances, I was worried).

What *would* be nice is some dual-boot documentation. I'm sure that=20=20
what=20I was trying to do is possible. I just didn't succeed. And having=20=
=20
to=20muck with the firmware every time to get into FreeBSD is ugly.

Thanks!
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David=20Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>

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