Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 15:40:04 -0400 From: "Jason P. Thomas" <jthomasp@gmualumni.org> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet? Message-ID: <463B8C14.2050807@gmualumni.org> In-Reply-To: <C260F332.3E2%freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <C260F332.3E2%freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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Jonathan Horne wrote: > Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was > actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The > normal boot loader worked exactly as expected. > > So, upgraded the XP to vista, which seemed to go perfectly normal. Got > everything the way I wanted it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted. > Went to fixit console, and did a > > Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 > > Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine. Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and > kaboom. Winboot.exe is missing! > > Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how > did you get around this issue? > > Thanks, > I have my laptop dualbooting Vista and FreeBSD. I did the install shortly after vista came out and at the time the FreeBSD boot loader did not boot Vista. I installed the GAG boot manager and it works like a champ. --Jay
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