FreeBSD with Win7 and UEFI

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On Sun, December 28, 2014 1:40 pm, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>> Your boot menu suggests that Windows 7 is installed for standard BIOS
>> booting.  The easiest way to deal with this is to reinstall FreeBSD for
>> standard BIOS booting also, with an MBR format.  Then you can install
>> the boot0 multiboot program, but it really doesn't offer anything that
>> the BIOS boot menu does not already have.
>>
>> Please also consider running FreeBSD as a VM with one of the many
>> virtualization options.  That has many advantages over multiboot setups.
>
> There is a big difference: in last case you have the machine running
> Windows 7. Just out of curiosity: do _you_ have the same level of trust to
> Windows 7/8 system as you do to FreeBSD? If yes, why at all would you go
> into trouble running FreeBSD? Just curious (no offense to anyone/anything
> intended ;-)

If Windows (or anything, really) is alternately running with FreeBSD, 
there's already a trust issue.  The other OS has access to FreeBSD's 
disks when FreeBSD is not running.

Either way, setting up VMs is easier and less hazardous than modifying 
existing disk boot blocks and partitions.  Allowing multiple operating 
systems to run at the same time means that the functionality of the host 
or other VMs is still available.  With multiboot, only one system is 
available, and that can be challenging for new users who get FreeBSD 
started but don't have access to the web for researching questions 
because X or a text-mode browser or even a network connection has not 
been set up yet.