Installing FreeBSD along with Windows how to. How must be used GRUB about that?

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raul_comodoro

I got the idea to install FreeBSD with Windows dual booting but the docs I've encountered are so complicated, I understand nothing.
Please could anybody help me?
Thank you
 
I have a fast usb stick with freebsd on it. It mounts with fstab my hard disk drive partition.
When i boot i press F11 then i can choose from the bios between booting from Windows and the USB stick which mounts the hard disk drive partition.
No grub needed.
I use grub to boot different linux installs.
 
Use a gparted live image to create free space besides the Windows partition and then use the freebsd installer with manual partitioning and choose the previously created free space for the root partition.
 
Do you want to install on one drive or multiple drives?
Do you have BIOS/MBR or UEFI/GPT?
I have three systems on three drives (Windows 11/Linux Debian/FreeBSD) in UEFI/GPT mode.

Do you want to install FreeBSD on ZFS or UFS/FFS?
 
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Thread 'Booting FreeBSD via GRUB'

After install Grub2, I'm unable to boot FreeBSD. The Grub installation is on an Archlinux partition and boots up OK. I couldn't figure out how to get Grub to automatically add FeeBSD so have been struggling to add it manually using whatever guides I could find such as:-

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/109272/add-freebsd-to-grub2-boot-menu

I put the following in /etc/grub.d/40_custom on my Arch Linux partition (/dev/sdb3)

Code: 
menuentry "FreeBSD" {
set root='(hd1,2)'
kfreebsd /boot/loader
}

run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

FreeBSD appears on the...
 
elgrande said:
Use a gparted live image to create free space besides the Windows partition and then use the freebsd installer with manual partitioning and choose the previously created free space for the root partition.
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OK, I can do that simply with the disk manager of Windows, let's say a 5 GB root partition. And the other partitions? I have a desktop computer, 2 disks 2 TB each. The primary disk with C:, D:; and E: (where I have enough space, I guess to mount freebsd-boot, freebsd-swap, freebsd-ufs var, freebsd-ufs tmp, freebsd-ufs home and the rest freebsd-ufs. But when installation is finished, booting up will give me the option for Windows or Q4OS Linux. The advantage is I got a loader menu created by Q4OS Linux. I might be to edit it and see the way for including FreeBSD there.
 
raul_comodoro said:
OK, I can do that simply with the disk manager of Windows, let's say a 5 GB root partition. And the other partitions? I have a desktop computer, 2 disks 2 TB each. The primary disk with C:, D:; and E: (where I have enough space, I guess to mount freebsd-boot, freebsd-swap, freebsd-ufs var, freebsd-ufs tmp, freebsd-ufs home and the rest freebsd-ufs. But when installation is finished, booting up will give me the option for Windows or Q4OS Linux. The advantage is I got a loader menu created by Q4OS Linux. I might be to edit it and see the way for including FreeBSD there.
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I normally take the simple approach and have only one ZFS partition which hosts everything under /. So there is no need to have multiple partitions unless you need those. Nevertheless you will probably want a second partition for swap.

P.S.: I assume it is an UEFI system.
 
Virtualized I use Manual GPT, and...
freebsd-boot 256KB
freebsd-swap 8GB
freebs-usr / 5GB label rootfs
freebsd-usr /var 4GB label: varfs
freebsd-usr /tmp 2GB label: tmpfs
freebsd-usr /home 50GB label: homefs
freebsd-usr /usr the rest Label: freebsdufs
 
Yampress said:
Do you want to install on one drive or multiple drives?
Do you have BIOS/MBR or UEFI/GPT?
I have three systems on three drives (Windows 11/Linux Debian/FreeBSD) in UEFI/GPT mode.

Do you want to install FreeBSD on ZFS or UFS/FFS?
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My desktop computer have 2 disks 2TB each. The firs one has c:, D: and E:, primary partitions. E: has enough space to install FreeBSD on it. I remember years ago FreeBSD asked where to install GRUB, in MBR or FreeBSD.
That option do no exist anymore.
 
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