Installing amd64 FreeBSD 11.1 in dual-boot with Windows 7 on an MBR partitioned disk

[Karl Denninger]

On 10/7/2017 12:12, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 07.10.2017 22:26, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>> Sorry for top posting. Sounds like your BIOS will read the botox64.efi from the removable USB drive,
>> but won't from the hard drive. Force BIOS booting instead of UEFI and it will install correctly.
>> However, it may not boot Windows, which I think requires UEFI these days.
> My home desktop is UEFI-capable and but switched to BIOS/MBR mode
> and it dual-boots FreeBSD/Windows 8.1 just fine.
Windows (including Windows 10) doesn't "require" UEFI but the current
installer will set it up that way on a "from scratch" installation.  If
you have it on an MBR disk (e.g. you started with 7 or 8, for example)
it will boot and run just fine from it, and in fact if you have a legacy
license and try to change to UEFI (with a full, from-scratch reload) you
run the risk of it declaring your license invalid!  You can /probably
/get around that by getting in touch with Microsoft but why do so
without good reason?

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