From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 6 17:30:52 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475319B4E7C for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:30:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cary@SDF.org) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9B31488 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:30:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cary@SDF.org) Received: from [67.49.10.59] ([67.49.10.59:65177] helo=bsdfull.Belkin) by cdptpa-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 99/95-21417-1C993C55; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:30:45 +0000 Message-ID: <55C399A6.4030905@SDF.org> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:30:14 -0700 From: Cary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: windows entry for grub2 References: <20150804034108.Horde._OTrFyjhdRQUM4x9GSp-yLG@mail.parts-unknown.org> <20150804132218.Horde.Gj6WjgZdXie82Uv8hJ6DwzP@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C1418A.8020904@SDF.org> <20150804201540.Horde.tVjfGgqFaL11N353NCxJOb4@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C1AD48.4060004@SDF.org> <20150805021737.Horde.Aqa-ovKXshlnp4t4PUEB8rw@mail.parts-unknown.org> <55C2388B.8030803@SDF.org> <20150806011313.Horde.2QXs18DRBiA3e2WofhttL83@mail.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <20150806011313.Horde.2QXs18DRBiA3e2WofhttL83@mail.parts-unknown.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.142:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:30:52 -0000 David Benfell wrote: > Quoting Cary : >> >> >> 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 ------------------------------