stuck duel booting win-10 and FreeBSD 10.3
Nikolaj Thygesen
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Sun Oct 22 14:14:44 UTC 2017
On 10/20/2017 22:37, DTD wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, DTD wrote:
>
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD 10.3 on a Lenovo Ideapad 700. I was
>> following some instructions to set up duel-boot with rEFInd Boot
>> Manager and EasyUEFI. For whatever reason this did not work. I have
>> FreeBSD installed, but the EFI code was not put where it needs to be.
>> I have tried to use the shell to mount the disk to copy the code
>> where it needs to go. I can not figure out a mount command.
>>
>> Using windows 10 diskpart, gpart and sysctl I put constructed the
>> following map of the disk:
>>
>> Partition ### Type Size Offset
>> ------------- --------- ------- -------
>> Partition 1 System 260 MB 1024 KB ada0p1 C: Windows boot
>> Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 261 MB ada0p2
>> Partition 3 Primary 446 GB 277 MB ada0p3 Windows NTFS
>> Partition 8 Unknown 4096 MB 446 GB ada0p8 freebsd-swap
>> Partition 9 Unknown 512 KB 450 GB ada0p9 freebsd-boot
>> Partition 10 Unknown 438 GB 450 GB ada0p10 FreeBSD
>> freebsd-ufs
>> Partition 4 Primary 25 GB 889 GB ada0p4
>> Partition 5 Recovery 1000 MB 914 GB ada0p5
>> Partition 6 Recovery 14 GB 915 GB ada0p6
>> Partition 7 OEM 1000 MB 930 GB ada0p7
> [cut]
>
>> The installer can mount and write the disk just file. I have
>> installed this 3 different ways to try and coax the install into
>> writing boot code somewhere.
>>
>> So ... what's the magic command to mount the BSD partition? I am also
>> not sure if the EFI boot code just gets added to ada0p1. ada0p9 is a
>> boot partition added by the current install. Is FBSD 11 more likely
>> to work?
>
> I (think I)have narrowed this down to a more specific question. Will
> it work if I use gpart to wite the boot code? I can do this because I
> can take the code from a working system. That only leaves which boot
> code and where? An example of a working command would seem to be:
>
> gpart bootcode -p /tmp/gptboot -i [1|9] ada0
>
> where I copy gptboot from another 10.3 system. Who get it. I though 1
> or 9 not 10.
>
>
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I successfully did the same a year or two ago. I did most of my fiddling
in Win10 as per some youtube video. This *might* be the one; I'm not sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPvt3pQfaw
Two of my main obstacles were disabling secure boot in BIOS and making
sure to assign some UID to partitions for the boot manager.
N :o)
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