The need for multi OS installation/boot support/documentation with Haiku

Feedback Ideas
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I found no reFind.efi entry in the BCD hive!

So I need more time for investigation and understanding the problem!

Because reFind is not installed with a installer or a setup routine, User have to manually create the Efi-Folder and put the renamed bootx64.efi (reFind.efi) manually into the “BOOT” folder.
So Windows is not able to see it at booting!

If I manually start Windws it will start from the Windows boot manager only efi/boot/windows/bootmgr.efi and not seeing the efi/boot/bootx64.efi

So The OS Boot Manager is not a submenu and expandable. Yes, clicking on it just launches just the same loader!

In other words, when clicking on it, can you see another list with “Windows Boot Manager” and “refind” entries? You say, you can change boot options to launch efi/boot/bootx64.efi , how do you achieve this? Via “load from file”?

Yes, I have to navigate manualy through the menus at boot with the arrow-keys…

Thank you so much for your interest and help on this problem (for me still a HP-Problem).

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With help of this tool, I managed to get my bootorder at boot registered!
Now the entries can be choosen at boot!
However, choosing to load EFI/boot/bootx64.efi will start Windows!?

The entries can now seen with “regedit” in Windows:

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It would be great if HAIKU developer could program something similar to make HAIKU boot with UEFI this way!

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If choosen it works only once but it works!
If only it could be set to boot always the selected Boot order!

It only works once, and it is a trial version!

EDIT:

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EDIT 3: This is the boot menu:

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Only Windows, Haiku and reFind works!
REfind does not work (HP Problem?)

It looks like I have set it up ok!

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I boot my UEFI Systems with refind, because i get a beautiful menu.
For Haiku i just copy the EFI Files from the bootstick, but that could be automated

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Do you use a HP Notebook?

I use reFIND, but with the HP-Notebook it does not work at boot!

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No, mostly Thinkpads and a beautiful iMac 2017 27" (unfortunatly no sound on that one, can someone suggest a usb sound adapter for Haiku?)

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See here, you will find a few devices which reportedly work