FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI

[Nguyen Binh]

http://saigon-langthang.blogspot.com/

2014-12-26 14:29 GMT+07:00 James Griffin <griffin8j at gmail.com>:

>  Christian Baer wrote on Thu 25.Dec'14 at 17:54:10 +0100
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > For the first time, I am trying to get FreeBSD to run on a machine with
> > UEFI. Thought I might go modern. :-)
> >
> > This time I installed Windows 7 first. However, I did not find any step
> > during installation where I could install a boot manager to choose if I
> > wanted to run Windows or FreeBSD. Currently, the only way I can choose
> > the OS now is to use the Mobos EFI boot manager, which of course is not
> > the way I want to go.
> >
> > It seems that I am walking on pretty much untouched soil here. There is
> > no mention of a boot manager in the Handbook and even a searchengine
> > doesn't find anything useful if UEFI is part of the search criteria.
> >
> > Is what I am trying to do really that exotic? What do I have to look out
> > for?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Chris
>
> 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.
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "
> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>