From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sat Jan 26 15:59:48 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@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 21BE614C760A for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamisouckova@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vs1-f50.google.com (mail-vs1-f50.google.com [209.85.217.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8F3E88B2E; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:59:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamisouckova@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vs1-f50.google.com with SMTP id n10so7426601vso.13; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 07:59:46 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=22jgWE8t+hoK2DBSTu7KUpxkErAns7XboNlLvF/Xlns=; b=d/bG4cKuLpikF40bFdVLAgY5M8EqyvQjpcvn20kqFo/zbKQnkTihUuPD1SGk1pKnjT 8PD7P+g7lRQAE8hFpM6U3ay6yFSvvyImWxT/je1NiRsHGqPyzCyuteS1aEsKOAryLG0f fCm+lQQZKGOITi3YOfS7tSAHnkr+zG1cmwBgi5nOhEPOt4CDV3unhGUP9yvzA0wNsGi/ 6VrtvEq5Q5XRoIx5hwpMgcdlAHVXWpX/nSxSOgafzByv8MtLUokRcGPSDJ/lYMsqXTd1 EL/E0fWv+AGM5xgGmRWjQPnL6Ha+cjL6EAMHGIHWXn9lmGmL+ihYUCsMZajk04GwgHdv iw7Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AJcUukdhKvjBR7Trzj6XROJeIwyeejjHmiAeRQ4VdFQivrSxm2jAeZFG FL2LOtGw7MyajTyL9MHLfRU2YJ4ciW2ZnIsV2IV53zFG X-Google-Smtp-Source: ALg8bN5lQO93GPX0Dwa6bf0FN/wA1ZnzspukD64crkIM2fNq+mQN/kl5jcCViTRuDYyo58CcZ1df1QjyuRg40YVecHU= X-Received: by 2002:a67:8291:: with SMTP id e139mr6347204vsd.3.1548511738084; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 06:08:58 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7391812a-a2ad-874a-80c9-5a871a29f680@denninger.net> In-Reply-To: From: =?UTF-8?B?S2FtaWxhIFNvdcSNa292w6E=?= Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:08:46 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Not sure if this is the correct place.... (laptop, dual-boot EFI) To: Kyle Evans Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List , Jonathan Chen , Karl Denninger X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: C8F3E88B2E X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of kamisouckova@gmail.com designates 209.85.217.50 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=kamisouckova@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.66 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:209.85.128.0/17]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[ksp.sk]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.51)[-0.507,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[50.217.85.209.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; IP_SCORE(-1.14)[ipnet: 209.85.128.0/17(-3.70), asn: 15169(-1.93), country: US(-0.08)]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[kamila@ksp.sk,kamisouckova@gmail.com]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[50.217.85.209.rep.mailspike.net : 127.0.0.17]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:209.85.128.0/17, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[kamila@ksp.sk,kamisouckova@gmail.com]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:59:48 -0000 I'm just booting the installer, going to do this on my X1 Carbon (5th gen), and I'm planning to use the efibootmgr entry first (which is sufficient for booting), and later I might add rEFInd if I feel like it. I'll be posting my steps online, I can post the link once it's out there if you're interested. I'm very curious about HW support on the 6th gen Carbon, it'd be great to hear how it goes. Have fun! Kamila On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, 06:54 Kyle Evans, wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:30 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 13:00, Karl Denninger wrote: > > [...] > > > I'd like to repartition it to be able to dual boot it much as I do with > > > my X220 (I wish I could ditch Windows entirely, but that is just not > > > going to happen), but I'm not sure how to accomplish that in the EFI > > > world -- or if it reasonably CAN be done in the EFI world. Fortunately > > > the BIOS has an option to turn off secure boot (which I surmise from > > > reading the Wiki FreeBSD doesn't yet support) but I still need a means > > > to select from some reasonably-friendly way *what* to boot. > > > > The EFI partition is just a MS-DOS partition, and most EFI aware BIOS > > will (by default) load /EFI/Boot/boot64.efi when starting up. On my > > Dell Inspiron 17, I created /EFI/FreeBSD and copied FreeBSD's > > /boot/loader.efi to /EFI/FreeBSD/boot64.efi. My laptop's BIOS setup > > allowed me to specify a boot-entry to for \EFI\FreeBSD\boot64.efi. On > > a cold start, I have to be quick to hit the F12 key, which then allows > > me to specify whether to boot Windows or FreeBSD. I'm not sure how > > Lenovo's BIOS setup works, but I'm pretty sure that it should have > > something similar. > > > > Adding a boot-entry can also be accomplished with efibootmgr. This is > effectively what the installer in -CURRENT does, copying loader to > \EFI\FreeBSD on the ESP and using efibootmgr to insert a "FreeBSD" > entry for that loader and activating it. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >