From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 23 13:23:49 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 DD8F61065692 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6998FC1C for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E9F5E399; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:23:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.835 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.835 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.140, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, SPF_PASS=-0.001] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LApNWFD-R3I2; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:23:45 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.140] (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3AB5E347; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:23:44 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B83D6E0.2050309@eskk.nu> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:23:44 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Angelin Lalev , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <532b03711002230420q26051014lc9475e03c7e12773@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <532b03711002230420q26051014lc9475e03c7e12773@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB) 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: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:23:49 -0000 Angelin Lalev skrev 2010-02-23 13:20: > Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). > I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 > and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I > want to have > Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. > Any suggestions? > _______________________________________________ I use the following boot manager because when I set this up there was new behaviour of the Windows Vista boot method and it didn't play well with Freebsd's bootmanager. Today I run Windows 7 and Freebsd 8 on this system. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 You can find instructions in bsdmag on how to set it up. http://bsdmag.org/app/files/download?attachment=attachment1&model=Article&model_id=9300&portal_id=134 Or http://bsdmag.org/pdf-articles And choose Download Free Issue: FreeBSD Ins & Outs /Leslie