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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:23:44 +0100
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Angelin Lalev <lalev.angelin@gmail.com>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
Message-ID:  <4B83D6E0.2050309@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <532b03711002230420q26051014lc9475e03c7e12773@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <532b03711002230420q26051014lc9475e03c7e12773@mail.gmail.com>

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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




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