Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:29:50 +0000 From: James Griffin <griffin8j@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI Message-ID: <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> In-Reply-To: <m7hfff$hno$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <m7hfff$hno$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Christian Baer wrote on Thu 25.Dec'14 at 17:54:10 +0100 > Hi everyone! > > For the first time, I am trying to get FreeBSD to run on a machine with > UEFI. Thought I might go modern. :-) > > This time I installed Windows 7 first. However, I did not find any step > during installation where I could install a boot manager to choose if I > wanted to run Windows or FreeBSD. Currently, the only way I can choose > the OS now is to use the Mobos EFI boot manager, which of course is not > the way I want to go. > > It seems that I am walking on pretty much untouched soil here. There is > no mention of a boot manager in the Handbook and even a searchengine > doesn't find anything useful if UEFI is part of the search criteria. > > Is what I am trying to do really that exotic? What do I have to look out > for? > > Best regards, > Chris 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.
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