EFI and GPT status

[Fernando Apesteguía]

El 20/7/2016 4:34, "Warren Block" <wblock at wonkity.com> escribió:
>
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Ben Woods wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Fernando Apesteguía <
fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What's the status of EFI and GPT support on FreeBSD? I would like to
triple
>>> boot windows 10 + FreeBSD 10 + Linux everything installed on a single
disk.
>>> Is it possible?
>>>
>>> If not with GPT, would it be better to fall back to compatibility mode
and
>>> MBR partition scheme?
>>>
>>> Has anyone played with this?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>> I dual boot my laptop with Windows and FreeBSD using a single hard drive.
>>
>> I find the easiest way is creating 2 new GPT partitions (1 for ZFS and 1
>> for swap). I then manually copy the FreeBSD EFI boot loader to my EFI
>> partition, by mounting the existing EFI partition that comes with the
>> laptop as msdosfs to /mnt, copying /boot/boot1.efi to
>> /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi.
>>
>> Lastly, I install refind on my efi partition to allow me to select
between
>> the Windows EFI loader and the FreeBSD EFI loader at boot time.
>> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
>
>
> I do a similar thing, but my UEFI Dell notebooks allow setting each EFI
boot loader as a menu entry.  So no additional software is needed.

Thanks for the tips!