From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 15:50:19 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 17068CD3 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C502C66420 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5G6b-0006Fq-AI for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:50:09 +0100 Received: from p4fddcedf.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.221.206.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:50:09 +0100 Received: from christian.baer by p4fddcedf.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:50:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christian Baer Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:49:56 +0100 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fddcedf.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> 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: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:50:19 -0000 Am 26.12.2014 um 08:29 schrieb James Griffin: > 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. Well, technically, this isn't what happens. I installed Win7 first and FreeBSD after that. When I was finished, only Windows booted. The only way I could get FreeBSD to start, was to go into the setup of the motherboard (BIOS setup) and tell it to boot off another partition. What I wanted was the computer automatically starting the boot manager and letting me choose whether I wanted Windows or FreeBSD. That however didn't happen. This is a little redundant, but I really want to make this clear... My motherboard is a Supermicro X10SAT. When the system starts, I can press F12 which lets me choose the boot device (basicly like in the BIOS setup, but an a temporary basis). This is a *motherboard* function, this is not a boot manager from any OS. The motherboard recognises both Windows (list item: "Windows boot manager") and FreeBSD (list item: "EFI OS"). I have seen no other boot manager after the installation nor did I see any chance to choose/configure/check one during the installation of FreeBSD. The handbook in rather silent about this subject too, which is quite a surprise to me. When I started out with Linux, everything was about being able to coexist with Windows on a single machine. I switched to FreeBSD a little later. My first FreeBSD CDs were of v3.3 (that was 1999 and I am feeling very old right about now). The FreeBSD boot manager of back then wasn't as pretty as the one supplied with SuSE at the time but it did the same thing. Is this an EFI thing or have the priorities shifted? Best regards, Chris