Solved. Re: Dualboot and ZFS

[Victor Sudakov]

Trond Endrest?l wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Besides, I don't know of a small simple boot manager (like boot0) for
> > > > GPT. Can you advise one?
> > > 
> > > Try GRUB2 or rEFInd.
> > > My laptop is pretty happy about the latter.
> > > 
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
> > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
> > 
> > I will most certainly look at rEFInd, thank you.
> > 
> > To boot FreeBSD with it, do you follow the procedure described in
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI ?
> 
> No, I took matters into my own hands.
> 
> I first installed the least cooperative OS, Win10.
> 
> I manually installed FreeBSD with ZFS.
> 
> I extracted rEFInd to the ESP.

Who created the ESP partition for you?
> 
> I copied the boot1.efi bootloader to a \FreeBSD directory on the ESP.
> 
> I configured rEFInd to suit my needs.
> 
> I configured some boot entries in the UEFI environment of my laptop, 
> one for each of rEFInd, Windows 10, and FreeBSD, and made the entry 
> for rEFInd the preferred one.

Why do you need rEFInd at all if your laptop's UEFI environment can
choose which OS to boot? 


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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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