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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2012 19:32:06 -0300
From:      Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3
Message-ID:  <201205231932.06706.lobo@bsd.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20120523214906.GA71149@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <20120523214906.GA71149@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been searching through questions and forums for information
> on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it.
> 
> My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be
> contradictory.  I am not sure which to believe.
> 
> My new machine has two disk drives.  Windows 7 is on ad0 and I want
> to put FreeBSD 8.3 on ad1, leaving W7 as is.   So, I don't even have
> to shrink a primary slice to do this.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> ////jerry
> _______________________________________________


Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't you 
make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose which drive 
to boot from?

-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)



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