Dual booting FreeBSD and Win 10 STARTING from Windows

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Michael_l

Hi all!

I've browsed around for a while to try to get an idea on how I'm suppose to install FreeBSD under Windows 10. I've tried it for some time under a virtual machine and it works but it irritates me that some of the hardware power is lost (of course some of it gets lost since I'm running two OS at once).

There are a few decriptions on how to install your system starting with FreeBSD but I haven't found alot when it talkes about going the other way around. Is that even possible?

I'm not too secure around FreeBSD yet to know everything yet but I'm sure I'll learn as soon as I have to rely only on one OS at a time.

I have read this: Triple booting on the forum (among alot others) but all the guides goes "the other way around" and assume I can do alot of stuff in a BSD terminal. Which is not the case for me. Since I start with windows...

I though I struck luck when I found this on youtube: Guide for dual boot

But I fail at 12:00 where I'm suppose to copy refind to the EFI used in Windows.

When I try to do that in windows terminal I get:

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The summary:

1. I've managed to shrink the C:/ and created one EFI, one Swap and one main "/" and installed FreeBSD into them.
2. I've assigned the Windows EFI part to K:\
3. I've downloaded rEFInd and easyUEFI - Is there better tools?
4. Get stuck in the momentum where I'm suppose to copy the EFI part of rEFInd into the EFI partition of Windows.


I want to get started with my FreeBSD journey but I need windows for certain jobs that I cannot do in other OS.

Any advice?
 
drr said:
If both the OSes have EFI entries, you may be able to choose one at boot time from your BIOS/EFI; I do this on Dell desktops by pressing F12 at boot time to select which boot loader to boot from. rEFInd's website has guidance on installing it manually in windows: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#windows
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Thanks for your reply. I tried that but I wasn't successful. I removed everything and installed FreeBSD. Now I struggle with Gnome. But I will try myself first before I ask for help.

Thanks alot for your comment!
 
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drr said:
I think Gnome has plenty of systemd dependencies, so some things may not work. Please elaborate if you wish to get suggestions from other Gnome users here.
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Thanks!

I decided to test KDE plasma instead and it worked really great! Must say in my first years of trying KDE back in the day (10 years ago) I thought KDE was a load of bugs and just emphasized to lookg good but without the functionality while gnome was the opposite.

The new plasma KDE is impressive.

And just to say it, I must say that the community of FreeBSD is far more friendly towards newbies than any other GNU community that I've encountered (most experience from Debian from before).

I'm home!
 
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