Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:52:12 -0400 From: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: win 7 dual boot Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910282333490.91845@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> References: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11, aryeh.friedman@ wrote:
> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when
> I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and
> after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use
> EasyBCD to remake it in such a way that vista would still find it's "magic"
> bytes in the mbr... does anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues and/or
> any other weirdness in reguards to dual booting?
>
> Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista
> partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/or
> /etc/fstab after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead of
> via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on RC2
> right now}]?
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You could attempt some trickery with grub if you have the option of
using it and if you are installing Win/7 to its own drive. Here is the
specs.
Install FreeBSD on your first drive ;) the way it should be...
Install GRUB from ports or packages whatever you prefer.
Edit your menu.lst file to contain something like:
title WINDO~7 ;)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0) (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Now reboot into your bios and turn off your FreeBSD drive and your
secondary drive should remain and to Windows 7 as long as it is staying
along the same lines as Windows XP will just accept your secondary as your
primary drive C: and just install its MBR to that drive.
After your done reboot into your BIOS turn your FreeBSD drive back on.
Tada! you now have a bootable system where grub swaps your drives around
for you and confuses Windows 7 into thinking its the primary C: drive and
you can upgrade without touching the first disks MBR.
I have this setup running on the machine I am writing this email from and
for fail-over sake if my FreeBSD disk takes a hike windows will pick right
back up without even noticing the first disk being gone. I have also
disabled my FreeBSD disk in windows devices just to be sure that nothing
happens to it as a cause of windows.
Anyway... Hope this gives you just another option to consider.
Best of luck.
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Wed Oct 28 23:33:49 2009 -0500
jhell
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