From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Apr 29 07:38:08 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37355FC8D85 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sj126@uranus.uni-freiburg.de) Received: from mailgateway2.uni-freiburg.de (mailgateway2.uni-freiburg.de [132.230.2.212]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B794668D69 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:38:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sj126@uranus.uni-freiburg.de) Delivery-date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:38:07 +0200 Received: from fe1.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.2.221] helo=uni-freiburg.de) port 57198 by mailgateway2.uni-freiburg.de with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1 #2 built 16-Feb-2018 16:47:02 running on Gentoo) id 1fCguL-0000oe-Uk; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:38:06 +0200 Received: from [10.4.25.100] (account schreck.julian@uranus.uni-freiburg.de) by uranus.uni-freiburg.de (CommuniGate Pro WEBUSER 6.2.3) with HTTP id 2642305; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:38:05 +0200 From: sj126@uranus.uni-freiburg.de Subject: Re: Dual Boot with GRUB next to GNU/Linux "Debian" To: =?utf-8?B?S3Jpc3RhcHMgxIxpdmt1bGlz?= Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser v6.2.3 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:38:05 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:38:08 -0000 Thanks for the fast reply :-) Just to get it unambiguous: Is the "FreeBSD pre-partition" an unallocated space or an empty partition, which is unmounted or ... ? Btw, does the unallocated space physically need to be at a stretch? (How) Does the partition manager arrange the physical position of partitions? As (nearly) always in the world of Free Software, I can (successfully) use whichever partition manager I want for this, can't I? Or is efibootmgr more suitable for this task? -- > Hi, > > If you use UEFI, you can do it automatically and almost without > touching your current partitions. Just create new empty partition and > let FreeBSD installer use that partition to automatically divide it > into smaller ones (new EFI partition, root partition and swap). Then > in Linux add new boot entry with efibootmgr so that you can boot into > FreeBSD through UEFI boot menu. -- https://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~sj126