Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 00:33:07 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing amd64 FreeBSD 11.1 in dual-boot with Windows 7 on an MBR partitioned disk Message-ID: <59D7BE53.5050409@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <CANt7McGqZG0mJFmuQgE4_rFu_0kmnyUCUCZyrrThKMjJtnyewA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANt7McGqZG0mJFmuQgE4_rFu_0kmnyUCUCZyrrThKMjJtnyewA@mail.gmail.com>
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06.10.2017 22:17, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > I consider this as a critical bug. But maybe there is some workaround > that allows me to install the FreeBSD 11.1 as a second OS without > repartitioning the entire disk? > > My hardware is an Intel Core i7 4790 3.6GHz based machine with 16GB > RAM. The ada0 disk is 238GB SanDisk SD8SBAT256G1122 (SSD). bsdinstall (current installer) is seriously flawed comparing with sysinstall (previous one) when we talk about installing FreeBSD to a slice within MBR. You still can install FreeBSD by invoking a shell from bsdinstall and using gpart: gpart add -t freebsd -a 4096 ada0 # dedicate all unallocated space for ada0s3 gpart create -s BSD -n 20 ada0s3 # create BSD label able to contain upto 20 partitions gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0 # install menu-driven boot manager BootEasy to MBR gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ada0s3 # install FreeBSD-specific UFS boot code to its slice gpart set -a active -i 1 ada0 # make sure MBR has exactly one active partition gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 4G -i 2 # allocate 4G for a swap ada0s3b (choose size of your like) gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 2G # allocate 2G for root partition ada0s3a newfs -L root /dev/ada0s3a gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G # allocate 1G for read-only /usr partition ada0s3d newfs -L usr /dev/ada0s3d gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 4G # allocate 4G for /var ada0s3e newfs -L var /dev/ada0s3e gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10G # allocate 10G /usr/local: future installed ports & packages newfs -L usrl /dev/ada0s3f gpart add -t freebsd-ufs # allocate all other space for /home newfs -L home /dev/ada0s3g Then you will have mount new ada0s3a, create mount points for other partitions there, create etc/fstab, extract *.txz from distibution media and it will boot just fine.
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