Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:56:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI Message-ID: <2641.69.209.227.251.1419803774.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412281227150.86113@wonkity.com> References: <m7hfff$hno$1@ger.gmane.org> <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> <m7p8r5$jiv$1@ger.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412281227150.86113@wonkity.com>
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On Sun, December 28, 2014 1:40 pm, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Christian Baer wrote: >> >> 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? > > UEFI is a whole new game, utterly different from what came before. And > FreeBSD's UEFI support is new. As far as I know, it has no provision > for multibooting in UEFI. Code to do that would be welcome, it's been > difficult just to get the current UEFI support. > > Your boot menu suggests that Windows 7 is installed for standard BIOS > booting. The easiest way to deal with this is to reinstall FreeBSD for > standard BIOS booting also, with an MBR format. Then you can install > the boot0 multiboot program, but it really doesn't offer anything that > the BIOS boot menu does not already have. > > Please also consider running FreeBSD as a VM with one of the many > virtualization options. That has many advantages over multiboot setups. There is a big difference: in last case you have the machine running Windows 7. Just out of curiosity: do _you_ have the same level of trust to Windows 7/8 system as you do to FreeBSD? If yes, why at all would you go into trouble running FreeBSD? Just curious (no offense to anyone/anything intended ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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