refind

Hello everyone,

Greetings to the whole community, I would like to ask whether it would be possible for developers or maintainers to create a port of rEFInd for FreeBSD. The reason is that I would like to set up a dual boot system with Windows and FreeBSD. Unfortunately, being a newbie, I still do not have the necessary knowledge to manually install and configure rEFInd on FreeBSD, especially since there is currently no official FreeBSD port available, and the dev's docs are only covering Linux and MacOS. I know that Eric Turgeon from GhostBSD created a custom rEFInd port for GhostBSD, adapted specifically for that system. However, I cannot rely on GhostBSD for my use case because, as Eric himself has publicly admitted that the project could die due to the very small development team and the burden of work involved. Also, GhostBSD usually lags slightly behind the latest FreeBSD releases, and I can only use my wireless card correctly with the upcoming 15.1. Thank you very much.
 
I still do not have the necessary knowledge to manually install and configure rEFInd on FreeBSD
It's really nothing more than copying a couple of files from the rEFInd downloads to the EFI partition, and running efibootmgr(8) to activate it. The Linux instructions are, for the most part, valid on FreeBSD too. Only the efibootmgr(8) on FreeBSD uses slightly different options compared to its Linux counterpart.

rEFInd itself doesn't need any configuration, as long as FreeBSD's loader.efi(8) is in \EFI\FreeBSD\loader.efi on the efi partition it will get picked up automatically.
 
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