Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm sure you do. ehlo localhost? someone deleted help.txt from my sendmail pkg. So I'm not wrong at all: my perspective differs.Įfibootmgr is "cool and capable" but it is not for newbies and takes significant time to make use of, and is not fowardly available (visible, with help, online to someone just installing from win10 on a single PC).
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Also efibootmgr is not fowardly available during install to someonw who is thinking about not using win10. I for instance don't have the forementioned. One must have to have TWO computers and two working internet connections to make that trick work: one for reading, the other for doing. Guess what you can do with efibootmgr(8). That is why I gave the $$$ warning.Ĭomplete nonsense. I didn't know at the time my bios "ignores UEFI unless pre-selected" so I haven't tried it. MS docs say no: therefore I didn't think to even try it. I'm unsure if you are right about my store bought win10 USB supporting GPT if booted UEFI. You could put allot of time into it then find you still need a second HD right? So be careful in treating it as a total solution. I firmware doubt reFind works in both boot modes and knows all OSes and versions - such as older linux or newer win10 revisions issues (like uefi changeovers). you then would wish you had a boot/rescue USB for each OS that knows "itself" (how to launch the OS it previously installed on the HD). If you go UEFI then you still have the issue of playing the boot loader game (who's boot loader starts and if that boot loader knows about the other OS - and without allot of hacking it will NOT)ģ) consider a second drive or something so that the two OSes do not have to contend with each other about booting how do you think forward with that in mind? Win10 isn't the only offender - RHEL refuses to install anything unless it "knows" it owns the whole drive as the primary boot loader.
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If you go for BIOS on the same drive OR EVEN A SECOND DRIVE IN THE SAME PC you _will_ run into problems you'd have to ask Sir Dice how to get a partition bootable (without Win10 stomping on it, which Win10 can and will do (and did to me) - and if you are not very savy - you "loose your FreeBSD and all on it"). There are visual indications of which, and you'll very likely have to fidget in your bios settings so that you know which. win10 can read+write GPT on a separate drive, good to know. win10 sucks they take 3 of 4 BIOS partitions (2 if you sacrifice backup and know which setting). My win10 USB refuses to intall/repair on GPT drives - but via advice can be "migrated to running on it" (though, that won't fix my purchased USB so little good)ġ) don't delete win10 your going to need it for Steam games or something else: and if you didn't get an OEM disk make sure you get it before going forward.Ģ) know if your booting FreeBSD USB in uefi or bios mode. 0) My advice is to FIRST read microsoft's instructions about GPT.
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RefindPlus is a fork of rEFInd that add several features and improvements for Mac devices, specifically MacPro 3,1, MacPro 5,1, and equivalent Xserve. REFInd can be built with either GNU-EFI or TianoCore EDK2/UDK. Typical purposes of an EFI application are fixing boot problems and programmatically modifying settings within UEFI environment, which would otherwise be performed from within the BIOS of a personal computer (PC) without UEFI. GNU-EFI and TianoCore are supported as main development platforms for writing binary UEFI applications in C to launch right from the rEFInd GUI menu. REFInd is included in official repositories of major Linux distributions. REFInd is the default Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot manager for TrueOS.