From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 22:31:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6162106566B for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 22:31:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com (mail-vc0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C738FC22 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 22:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfy7 with SMTP id fy7so1625755vcb.13 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 15:31:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :x-kmail-markup:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:x-gm-message-state; bh=TEp0aH+G2lblZuris7gfmpZYxX/+vr8FLNps+f6HOc0=; b=KGYWk5HqmIDF+8fub+LQUPikhglChzIBbDegh+Fnz5f3mNaSpitTRWfowwflrG71Ei gkzevRke0HxUf2CFQBHJxm8eejnFoaLcQk/HGOUYrZplqBHPJubIwTxInVGFHDNWLmgr FkeZARhSGyIWGWGWn8t+LViPz25adgAy/QamDDx3yUK/Tzyf6u8OJs2DN3Szy4gqfyNg JDLowfwAKNTuDA+nYJP/6FWRukRrCRh25vR1eq7CsD/Vg7o9Yu+j89EEdD9TP5A07QGM 3oMWuXZQ2FdRQh+r/IWsBv7mmKkObZ8udGcW42ME9YSv8CYznJ4Rv6pFoHc4BRQWvAow OgcA== Received: by 10.52.95.147 with SMTP id dk19mr1500040vdb.106.1337812303040; Wed, 23 May 2012 15:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papi.localnet ([187.113.167.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i10sm19581886vdw.21.2012.05.23.15.31.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 23 May 2012 15:31:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 19:32:06 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: <20120523214906.GA71149@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20120523214906.GA71149@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201205231932.06706.lobo@bsd.com.br> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlxCiE0pHyP/55hZTO6g9/Z3X/xvlhsWKG3cOwldnptUoviX/hPGjEBZPRmTYKRAGUrrPVV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 22:31:49 -0000 On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: > Hi, > > I have been searching through questions and forums for information > on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. > > My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be > contradictory. I am not sure which to believe. > > My new machine has two disk drives. Windows 7 is on ad0 and I want > to put FreeBSD 8.3 on ad1, leaving W7 as is. So, I don't even have > to shrink a primary slice to do this. > > > Thank you, > > ////jerry > _______________________________________________ Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't you make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose which drive to boot from? -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)