From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 22 01:50:52 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 293CAF59429 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:50:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A0A7558E for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:50:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.5_1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from [212.73.125.240] (HELO admin.sibptus.transneft.ru) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 39961044; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:45:56 +0600 Received: from admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w2M1olB4017351; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:50:49 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w2M1oiVQ017349; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:50:44 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.transneft.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:50:43 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: Trond Endrest?l Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Solved. Re: Dualboot and ZFS Message-ID: <20180322015043.GA16501@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20180131082738.GA46395@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <547e65d16ef16667f61d88463ca73079@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> <20180319025914.GA57490@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180319171027.GA84127@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180320094625.GA24463@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180321061231.GA73086@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21) 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: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:50:52 -0000 Trond Endrest?l wrote: > > > > I configured some boot entries in the UEFI environment of my laptop, > > > one for each of rEFInd, Windows 10, and FreeBSD, and made the entry > > > for rEFInd the preferred one. > > > > Why do you need rEFInd at all if your laptop's UEFI environment can > > choose which OS to boot? > > Unless I want to boot the default, I have to hit F12 every time I want > to boot something else. This is on a Dell Latitude E5530. If I could > persuade the UEFI boot firmware to always present its menu, I wouldn't > need rEFInd at all. It's nice to have something that presents me with > a menu and remembers what I chose the last time and selects that after > a configureable timeout. It's also nice to have additional means > readily available should rEFInd implode. Trond, thanks for the enlightenment, I think I grasp the idea. Two more questions if you please: 1. If I have more than one freebsd-ufs partition, how can I configure boot1.efi (AKA /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI) to boot the loader from a particular partition, not from the first one? 2. Why are /boot/boot1.efi and /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (extracted from boot1.efifat) so different, even different length? They are supposed to be one and the same file, aren't they? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859