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Subject: Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?
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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