FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI
Christian Baer
christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de
Sun Dec 28 15:50:19 UTC 2014
Am 26.12.2014 um 08:29 schrieb James Griffin:
> As long as you have a part of the disk for FreeBSD, when you install
> FreeBSD it will provide its own bootmanager. This is what works best.
> I wouldn't bother trying to get Windows to do this.
Well, technically, this isn't what happens.
I installed Win7 first and FreeBSD after that. When I was finished, only
Windows booted. The only way I could get FreeBSD to start, was to go
into the setup of the motherboard (BIOS setup) and tell it to boot off
another partition.
What I wanted was the computer automatically starting the boot manager
and letting me choose whether I wanted Windows or FreeBSD. That however
didn't happen.
This is a little redundant, but I really want to make this clear...
My motherboard is a Supermicro X10SAT. When the system starts, I can
press F12 which lets me choose the boot device (basicly like in the BIOS
setup, but an a temporary basis). This is a *motherboard* function, this
is not a boot manager from any OS. The motherboard recognises both
Windows (list item: "Windows boot manager") and FreeBSD (list item: "EFI
OS").
I have seen no other boot manager after the installation nor did I see
any chance to choose/configure/check one during the installation of
FreeBSD. The handbook in rather silent about this subject too, which is
quite a surprise to me. When I started out with Linux, everything was
about being able to coexist with Windows on a single machine. I switched
to FreeBSD a little later. My first FreeBSD CDs were of v3.3 (that was
1999 and I am feeling very old right about now). The FreeBSD boot
manager of back then wasn't as pretty as the one supplied with SuSE at
the time but it did the same thing.
Is this an EFI thing or have the priorities shifted?
Best regards,
Chris
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