From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 29 03:52:16 2009 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 4B688106566C for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com (mail-qy0-f176.google.com [209.85.221.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04DC8FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk6 with SMTP id 6so935634qyk.3 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:52:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:date:from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent :x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; bh=F35vAnpKdV165ZnzmM55Pf5eafy+wvh9YPxMwrFF8EA=; b=hQXTBxlgoKlpLuCIczy3WM1ysoIT+FhwrMaGqB4f3cGmmCIqu4nVqqsH9PX35bud9s OEesitomCTLQEnRougx03PD2C1+ifnpvnb4sE8xND1dN7ONXfk6r4iB/G+cq/zhEuHBw GSYCONZ8F7q0radGVR4/93Spik7Rj30QOIWdw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; b=xfheS7rXIVoGa9QjkIE21tu/EH8Msufev3oUq5AeLHVTH8w87VuleIwPLLGeAGOcPM fauijqDlTIQxdDokEYMVB2p22psWfXaXoRGpuZlCE1HfSilbaVgCiM6yQbdGILs7oUWO QlHriDCk4nAY1VQ4Ob362c2XDA/FbMsw0hO0M= Received: by 10.224.109.208 with SMTP id k16mr6148731qap.224.1256788335391; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp-22.186.dialinfree.com (ppp-22.186.dialinfree.com [209.172.22.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm1019879qyk.0.2009.10.28.20.52.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:52:12 -0400 From: jhell To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-Reply-To: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x89D8547E X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: 85EF E26B 07BB 3777 76BE B12A 9057 8789 89D8 547E MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: win 7 dual boot 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: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:52:16 -0000 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}]? > _______________________________________________ > 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" > 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. -- Wed Oct 28 23:33:49 2009 -0500 jhell