Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Niclas Zeising and my previous post: > > On 6/22/2019 20:16, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > I am trying to set up UEFI to boot my FreeBSD and NetBSD installations, > > > and later, Linux. > > Easy.  Refind should do that and allow selection from a menu. > I wrote this as an instruction on ho

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-23 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/23/2019 02:36, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Karl Denninger and my previous post: > >>> This is scary (Bitlocker), sent me to Wikipedia to look up Bitlocker. >>> >>> Can you turn Bitlocker off after turning it on and get your system back? >> You SHOULD (better have!) kept the recovery key.  If

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-23 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 2019-06-23 04:56, Karl Denninger wrote: On 6/22/2019 20:16, Thomas Mueller wrote: I am trying to set up UEFI to boot my FreeBSD and NetBSD installations, and later, Linux. Easy.  Refind should do that and allow selection from a menu. I wrote this as an instruction on how to get FreeBSD

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-23 Thread Kamila Součková
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, 09:41 Thomas Mueller, wrote: > Can rEFInd find and boot FreeBSD, NetBSD, Haiku, etc? > > I don't see any refind, however partially capitalized, in FreeBSD base > system or ports, or NetBSD base system or pkgsrc. I find efibootmgr now in > FreeBSD, but not NetBSD, base system

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Karl Denninger and my previous post: > > This is scary (Bitlocker), sent me to Wikipedia to look up Bitlocker. > > Can you turn Bitlocker off after turning it on and get your system back? > You SHOULD (better have!) kept the recovery key.  If you have it, you > can boot with it.  Then turn

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/22/2019 20:16, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Karl Denninger: > >> On 6/22/2019 14:05, Rebecca Cran wrote: >>> On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Featur

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Karl Denninger: > On 6/22/2019 14:05, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: > >> I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived > >> upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Feature" > >> upgrade that reset the default boot in

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread karl
rg Subject: Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to? On 2019-06-22 13:34, Karl Denninger wrote: > > All I had to do was put the EFI loader in a directory under the UEFI > partition and Refind found it.  I didn't have to specifically tell it >

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 2019-06-22 13:34, Karl Denninger wrote: > > All I had to do was put the EFI loader in a directory under the UEFI > partition and Refind found it.  I didn't have to specifically tell it > that it was there. Sorry, I'm not talking about rEFInd. I know how great it is. I'm talking about systems

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/22/2019 14:05, Rebecca Cran wrote: > On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: >> I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived >> upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Feature" >> upgrade that reset the default boot in the firmware to Windows; it >> d

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: > > I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived > upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Feature" > upgrade that reset the default boot in the firmware to Windows; it > didn't damage anything but did require that I

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/22/2019 13:34, Rebecca Cran wrote: > I just upgraded my UEFI system firmware, and not unexpectedly lost the > "FreeBSD" boot manager entry after the settings got reset to default. I > was left with "Windows", "opensuse" and two "UEFI OS" entries. > > The "opensuse-secureboot" entry wasn't auto

UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
I just upgraded my UEFI system firmware, and not unexpectedly lost the "FreeBSD" boot manager entry after the settings got reset to default. I was left with "Windows", "opensuse" and two "UEFI OS" entries. The "opensuse-secureboot" entry wasn't automatically recreated, but since the "opensuse" ent