From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 21:38:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93CCCA68 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x236.google.com (mail-ie0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F84E1EF for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id rd18so8588996iec.13 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:38:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KMe2fYmOtuTBK0c2M1CqDMjZjJjh1VB8Gug3UOokg+E=; b=kJbYCxVQYcIShlxkH2xPiV3mAAbbh4uMjWjPPe0UqdxidN4/XDPxS7tW/2X8jFXUQD 34MycLh8QdKD91gipZJksGhr5Pb/A1k6NiSOOQouAcTDxOFx47w5bLBR1QnWCqKmGng/ tbvUCW+Z977r2HlZ5s35NDqw0elZjD36Br0FIw/4ZhsJClMZC1TIcMlBZkTaicDlIq1S A3JuyLASFcJY5w5CFRB2kWlrE7I1EWsK/2lNrxeEGRc2hHWam5thL/Jz/GPvFviuV3Ck aHbs9cvDKwB5mPAJP6KTGGafgkNORpjKGG8IgJDYVA6tVXp+tlce3u0kWMGzWnUUMHEK j7TA== X-Received: by 10.50.51.100 with SMTP id j4mr27133174igo.39.1415137094791; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (63-225-227-131.slkc.qwest.net. [63.225.227.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f20sm835109igz.13.2014.11.04.13.38.13 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:38:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54594745.6050306@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:38:13 -0700 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD References: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> <5459440D.8020200@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <5459440D.8020200@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:38:15 -0000 On 11/04/2014 02:24 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 11/04/14 14:55, Christian Baer wrote: >> Good evening, everyone! >> >> A few days ago I bought myself a new computer - at long last! :-) I >> have been >> working with FreeBSD for quite a while now, but only ever on servers, >> never on >> a desktop-computer or a workstation. This time I took special care to >> make >> sure FreeBSD would run on all the hardware. Only catch: The case has >> no room >> for a FreeBSD badge. :-) >> >> I guess I was a little over-enthusiastic and installed FreeBSD right >> away. As >> you can see, I managed to get it running, including X, nvdidia-driver >> and >> sound. ;-) >> >> At times, I still like gaming and although I do not spend most of my >> computer >> time doing that, I did leave some room on my SSD for Windows. To be >> exact, I >> created three primary partitions (MBR style, Win7 is a pain with >> UEFI), one >> 100MB, one ~120GB (these two are for Windows) and one ~118GB for >> FreeBSD. >> >> My problem is that should I install Windows now, FreeBSD won't boot >> anymore, >> because Windows will replace the boot loader. If there is any >> documentation >> about using FreeBSD and Windows on one machine, it usually assumes that >> Windows was installed first. >> >> Does anybody know of some documentation or howto to install these two >> OSs the >> other way around? As you can imagine, I don't really fancy the idea of >> starting from scratch here. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions! >> >> Best regards, >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > > > Run winders as a VM ? $0.02, no more, no less ..... > > Hey Christian Baer, It is easy to restore FreeBSD bootloader. Just go to this web page: http://lqman.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/restore-freebsd-bootloader-after-installing-windows/