Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 01:13:13 -0700 From: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: windows entry for grub2 Message-ID: <20150806011313.Horde.2QXs18DRBiA3e2WofhttL83@mail.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <55C2388B.8030803@SDF.org> References: <20150804034108.Horde._OTrFyjhdRQUM4x9GSp-yLG@mail.parts-unknown.org> <CAFYkXjm9eJVdVFkbzR9esVf8D9qeF5aLZ3Hj8rGRN2HRAb3Etg@mail.gmail.com> <20150804132218.Horde.Gj6WjgZdXie82Uv8hJ6DwzP@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C1418A.8020904@SDF.org> <20150804201540.Horde.tVjfGgqFaL11N353NCxJOb4@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C1AD48.4060004@SDF.org> <20150805021737.Horde.Aqa-ovKXshlnp4t4PUEB8rw@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C2388B.8030803@SDF.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Quoting Cary <cary@sdf.org>: > > > That's all. If you've got it, that will be nice to hear. It was weird. In the past, when I've run into difficulty with EFI boot entries, efibootmgr (under Linux) has been my friend. This tool can add boot entries, change the order in which they are attempted, delete boot entries, and probably a few other things. So when grub was still missing, I booted into Linux, ran efibootmgr, added the entry and tried again. The invocation is very specific. You specify the drive *and* the partition the efi file is in. No joy. Any entries I added disappeared by the reboot. And just so we're clear, rebooting to Linux and running efibootmgr confirmed that the entries had disappeared. So I got a Windows recovery disk and tried getting *it* to fix the boot. I tried just about every option there was on that thing. Still no joy. It flatly refused. As to your specific points, the system didn't just come with Windows. Dell adds a bunch of partitions with various utilities and recovery programs. But there didn't seem to be any way to access them--unless I got grub running. Some of those partitions are msdosfs and I'm pretty sure that's what grub-mkconfig was responding to. -- David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJVwxcZAAoJEBV64x4SNmArt+4P/2XaihtBDFzZuUal5h2JUNQq fwR5OvblHos+Ez/lbGpnkjQI8Ki+zEuqAlvo/Ph4gT7H5eZUafFnp4VR9E8uQKJW nq9fV+18Tp3RsbXymycbj+kP8XfQcz2KzqVX9YDbn5XyPJVMqTVxjnDRSRTKXoHM TkXM/Y/Ln/cmXPRmLIxL0rGVjCxW3ryw1EoEjvp3yHazMnLce9rbzeoJfrDcvhZY /wJ4ylqdFaE+cAxM0J08y9eDHGK/4HNGIaNP1Gke2isOEg5WdVdDtkjSkL5PgvoN GxuvNyrmzdmPSS3t3GTrvCH/Cs04mPt1BPxocGLYnR0gTlcPhOVXpEFX0a9N/Mdr 7tDKps7YGElAYPPRnfyQT7wj7NEuxF5XHM7lkEuNQaUzGW2Z9gCDimoS4MpwBNSn cYPb39x4sDTpRN/xlAgJ8MWrbc2vX0siOq4Ohg2yWo6HwvKBOu0qsOVtRGaipNpj 5ZJMkcNwoOVy0jGEjKyGFh4/1H0Ny6nY1PopTc/XAa33MLHKRGME56DblNKXjJAv leWLsmfpeFplv0EUUuKgznk22lVyVtvT86zR80rXLfyT9YOKDDhoz00EQnCGAdaC /ned/rDDK5YkYN+fmkEioY886cpi+FqcHrn5ZXho9i+frI4mQX3+wYtsQCSXL0M6 cXm6YSXMZ5UqpdUkpQbo =f+6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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