I've installed FreeBSD 11 onto my laptop (Gigabyte P15F v5) however, when I boot from that drive the bootloader doesn't show up. I know it's working though since if I wait for a few seconds, or press enter, it boots into FreeBSD like it should. I installed it using EFI with the automatic UFS partitioning (tried ZFS before with same results). I also tried disabling the Nvidia card but no change. It has an Intel 6700HQ CPU with HD530 iGPU. Anybody know what's going on?
Try FreeBSD -Current, and do this:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Use%20linuxkpi%20in%20DRM
Or try TrueOS. They do the above for you.
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PC-BSD is also a decent choice.
TrueOS is PCBSD rebranded.
Distribution? Or did they change names?
Name change. Plus they are based on -Current rather than -Release. Plus they pull in the new DRM stuff. trueos.org
Tried TrueOS, still bootloader still invisible and console at 800x600. Thinking it may be a bad UEFI implementation. If I install with GRUB I can see grub fine. Funny thing is, I see the bootloader fine on the install CD and renders the console at 1080p (most of the time). I'll try reinstalling TrueOS with grub and check back later with the results.
You can set the console resolution manually in /boot/loader.conf
man vt.
You might talk to @allanjude on Twitter about the invisible menu problem.
I'll let him know. Anyway, installed TrueOS with grub. Grub showed up as expected w. 1080p console. Although Ubuntu's grub can't see it when I do update-grub2. I'll probably have to edit it manually. Now all I need to do is to install MacOS as well and have a Quadruple boot!