From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 15:25:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143E51065670 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stacey@vickiandstacey.com) Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31838FC1E for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.68.31.182] (helo=unknown) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NyoBD-0004gy-VV; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:25:36 +0000 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:26:46 +0100 From: S Roberts To: Warren Block , Masoom Shaikh Message-ID: <20100405162646.00000b79@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: <20100404000942.00003960@unknown> <20100404092227.GA2632@chimera.vickiandstacey.com> <20100405141513.00005c14@unknown> <20100405144336.00007ba5@unknown> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.68.31.182] Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:25:39 -0000 Hello Warren, Great to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:10:47 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: > > Hello Masoom, > > > >>>> I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now > >>> > >>> That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with > >>> a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** > >>> FreeBSD, please? > > EasyBCD worked for me on a preinstalled Vista machine, adding FreeBSD > 8. And of course Vista is just Win7 alpha. > Understood - only realized this over the past 24 hours., > >> Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes > >> can read/write do not want to use fusefs > >> > >> first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use > >> EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry > >> remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. > >> > > > > Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting "None > > Leave Master Boot Record untouched" actually did work - and you did > > **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the > > mbr? > > No problem for me. > > > Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few > > people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, > > and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. > > There's a relatively rare bug in sysinstall, but even if there > wasn't, you should still back up the existing MBR and the whole > Windows partition before you add another OS. > > For backup, you can use the FreeBSD livefs and dd, but clonezilla or > partimage are faster. Clonezilla automatically saves a separate copy > of the MBR, AFAIR. > That's excellent information. I was unsure of the status of sysinstall's integrity as far as the efficacy of these option selections. Will have a go shortly. Regards, S Roberts > http://www.clonezilla.org/ > http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > _______________________________________________ > 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"