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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 2015 19:33:30 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
Cc:        CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: windows entry for grub2
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508061357340.24695@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, David Benfell wrote:

> Quoting CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>:
>
>> Start System Factory Recovery. Use Boot Menu or mark Recovery partiton
>> active to make it start Recovery :-)
>> 
>> Have you tried to DD from my Windows EFI partition image?
>
> It's too late now. Everything is overwritten.
>
> The boot menu didn't offer the options. And I looked for a way to mark the 
> partitions active, but couldn't find it with GPT file systems. The man page 
> made it seem to be for a MBR file systems, not GPT, and gpart returned an 
> error when I attempted it anyway.
>
> Here again, the documentation needs help. The information is much, much too 
> scattered.

The first step to documentation is figuring out how to make the thing 
work.  If you can come up with a procedure for setting up UEFI dual-boot 
with Grub, let's document it.



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