On 10/7/2017 12:12, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 07.10.2017 22:26, Warner Losh wrote: > >> Sorry for top posting. Sounds like your BIOS will read the botox64.efi from >> the removable USB drive, >> but won't from the hard drive. Force BIOS booting instead of UEFI and it >> will install correctly. >> However, it may not boot Windows, which I think requires UEFI these days. > My home desktop is UEFI-capable and but switched to BIOS/MBR mode > and it dual-boots FreeBSD/Windows 8.1 just fine. Windows (including Windows 10) doesn't "require" UEFI but the current installer will set it up that way on a "from scratch" installation. If you have it on an MBR disk (e.g. you started with 7 or 8, for example) it will boot and run just fine from it, and in fact if you have a legacy license and try to change to UEFI (with a full, from-scratch reload) you run the risk of it declaring your license invalid! You can /probably /get around that by getting in touch with Microsoft but why do so without good reason?
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