Cannot boot into FreeBSD after installation

handyman_hank

I installed FreeBSD on my MacBook Air through a USB stick. During the installation, I'm asked to choose partition on which FreeBSD is installed. I created a freebsd-ufs partition and a freebsd-swap partition. Then the installer asked me whether I want to create an EFI partition to make the disk bootable: Since I already have an EFI partition on my disk, and I don't need two EFI partitions , I chose No. After the installation, I saw no boot...

Originally asked by nalzok on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The last I checked, FreeBSD installed its EFI boot loader using the fallback filename ( EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi on the ESP). rEFInd should locate that and offer to launch it as the "fallback boot loader." If you don't see it, perhaps you skipped a step during installation or selected an incorrect option; or maybe bypassing the option to create a new ESP confused the FreeBSD installer and caused the boot loader to not be installed. I'm not an expert on FreeBSD installation, though, so I'm afraid I can't be more specific.

Full answer by Rod Smith: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1217372 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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