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Date:      Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:30:14 -0700
From:      Cary <cary@SDF.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: windows entry for grub2
Message-ID:  <55C399A6.4030905@SDF.org>
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David Benfell wrote:
> Quoting Cary <cary@sdf.org>:
>>
>>
>> That's all.  If you've got it, that will be nice to hear.
>
> It was weird. In the past, when I've run into difficulty with EFI boot entries,
> efibootmgr (under Linux) has been my friend. This tool can add boot entries,
> change the order in which they are attempted, delete boot entries, and probably
> a few other things.
>
> So when grub was still missing, I booted into Linux, ran efibootmgr, added the
> entry and tried again. The invocation is very specific. You specify the drive
> *and* the partition the efi file is in.
>
> No joy. Any entries I added disappeared by the reboot. And just so we're clear,
> rebooting to Linux and running efibootmgr confirmed that the entries had
> disappeared.
>
> So I got a Windows recovery disk and tried getting *it* to fix the boot. I tried
> just about every option there was on that thing. Still no joy. It flatly refused.
>
> As to your specific points, the system didn't just come with Windows. Dell adds
> a bunch of partitions with various utilities and recovery programs. But there
> didn't seem to be any way to access them--unless I got grub running. Some of
> those partitions are msdosfs and I'm pretty sure that's what grub-mkconfig was
> responding to.
>
>
Very sorry to learn that the multiboot did not succeed.  I was a little worried.
Its not a simple task, but it isn't very difficult to make a rescue cd or usb 
stick using grub.  I wish I had thought to recommend that.  Possibly you would 
not have had to wipe away the oem's partitions.
In any case there's the option to start over thanks to bsdinstall(8).

-- 
cary@sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org


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