Quick question re: dual-booting

[Allan Jude]

On 2015-05-27 21:47, Pokala, Ravi wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> For doing some apples-to-apples comparisons on a piece of hardware, we
> want to be able to easily flip back and forth between FreeBSD (10.1,
> amd64, traditional non-UEFI bootstrap w/ GPT) and Linux. To minimize the
> chance of an installer going wrong and nuking something, we're installing
> one drive, installing FreeBSD on it, then swapping in another drive and
> installing Linux on it. Then we'll install both drives, and let the
> bootloader control which one gets booted.
> 
> The question is: how do we tell the bootloader which OS to boot? If we can
> do it using loader, great! If we have to use something like grub, that's
> fine too. But either way, I need some guidance.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ravi
> 
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Grub will definitely work. I've also successfully dual-booted FreeBSD
UEFI and Windows UEFI using rEFInd

-- 
Allan Jude

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