Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:18:55 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106241511540.83085@oceanpt.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <4D6348DC01680F12@> (added by postmaster@resmaa13.ono.com) References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106231919320.83085@oceanpt.safeport.com> <D7EC3198-B917-4ACB-9BC2-ACE6D5569C07@my.gd> <4D7F86D5012E084A@> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106240933580.83085@oceanpt.safeport.com> <4D6348DC01680F12@> (added by postmaster@resmaa13.ono.com)
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 16:36 24/06/2011, doug@safeport.com wrote: >> Well for me it all worked well for all versions of FreeBSD until Windows 7. >> My main purpose was to document the link given to me by a friend who does >> user support for a local college. Before Vista the boot process was pretty >> simple, the MBR was one sector on sector 0, track 0 and it read the first >> sector of the target partition who took it from there. >> >> My experience with FreeBSD 7.0 to present has been that the install does >> not work with Windows 7. It appears that the MBR can still only have 4 >> entries. Windows 7 gets more by using extended partitions. Dell, the there >> can be only one and let it be Windows company, uses two small partitions >> for something. It may be that some of that underlying stuff is not needed >> but I had enough trouble without without making changes at that level. > > In Vista the way that Windows start changed. The MBR points to a file inside > the Windows partition that have the partition scheme. It's called BCD. You > can install EasyBCD in windows (it's freeware with commercial licence) that > permits you to start Windows and other OS inside other partitions. I use it > in my trial? Win7/FreeBSD8.2/OpenBSD4.9 server and dual Win7/FreeBSD8.2 > laptop. > > http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 > >> If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very >> useful howto. > > Don't know about it, perhaps using easybcd you can do that Perhaps but I could not get FreeBSD in an extended partition. I am using easyBCD to do the dual boot. In doing what I did I never distrubed the boot records in the partitions. Once I got the MBR and the windows 7 second level boot code restored, it all worked as advertised. The trick as outlined in the link to to run the process 3 times booting after each time. _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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