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On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote:

> Does anyone know if ports/sysutils/grub2 works?  I found some old posts on 
> the net that is saying that it has some problems building and installing 
> under FreeBSD.

I have used it to multiboot GPT:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/49055/

> It might be a solution for me as I really don't want to do the hit the 
> keyboard at boot thing

It still requires pressing a key if you don't want the default.  The way 
around this with the BIOS option is to set the most-used option as the 
first boot device.