Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:56:11 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412300852310.93506@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <m7uerq$nlm$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <m7hfff$hno$1@ger.gmane.org> <20141226072950.GB13694@kontrol.kode5.net> <m7p8r5$jiv$1@ger.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412281227150.86113@wonkity.com> <m7uerq$nlm$1@ger.gmane.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Christian Baer wrote: > Am 28.12.2014 um 20:40 schrieb Warren Block: > >> 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. > > Yes, I've read about that and the fact that it has been quite hard. This > actually did surprise me a bit, considering that UEFI has been around for a > while now. > >> Your boot menu suggests that Windows 7 is installed for standard BIOS >> booting. > > This sentence actually rather suggests that you have not read my post > (properly) before answering. Your boot menu pointed out that FreeBSD was EFI and did not do that for Windows. Also, Windows 7 UEFI installs are rare. > Why would you therefore assume I have installed an EFI FreeBSD on an BIOS > system? I have never tried that, so I don't know if that would even work. Some UEFI systems can attempt legacy BIOS booting and then UEFI, and it appeared that Windows 7 was booting in BIOS mode while FreeBSD was installed for UEFI.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.BSF.2.11.1412300852310.93506>