Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:39:52 -0800 From: "Oleksandr Rudyk" <alex.rudyk@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot Message-ID: <6e9d2bb40801281539l2e983011pff27c17073e6a8e5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <479E5903.100@student.utwente.nl> References: <3b2ddd940801281410o77b87c2ajbfbee2f5f276b934@mail.gmail.com> <479E5903.100@student.utwente.nl>
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I have installed FBSD 7.0 RC1 several weeks ago on my Dell XPS laptop with Vista. During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista. Then I booted with Vista rescue CD and restore Vista MBR sector. So I got Vista again but no FBSD. The last step was to install EasyBSD and add record for my FBSD partition. After reboot I got Vista Loader menu with Windows and FreeBSD loader options. Hope this helps 2008/1/28, Alphons Fonz van Werven <a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl>: > > Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > How do I go about installing FreeBSD (6.3) on it now? Anyone has done > > this already please? > > I had the exact same problem just a few days ago and two solutions were > quickly posted here: > > 1: http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/FreeBSD_%26_Windows_Vista > > 2: When installing FreeBSD and you are asked what boot manager to install > select to not install anything. In this way your Vista boot will not > be > affected. If after this you find that at startup you are not given ANY > choice but FreeBSD starts automatically, this is simply because it's > partition is marked active. Boot with a CD like Norton Partition Magic > or GParted and mark the Vista partition active. Boot Vista, then > download and install the EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 > It is then trivial to add a stanza to Vista bootloader (!) to boot > FreeBSD. > > Hth, > > Alphons > > -- > VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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