Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:11:05 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another boot question Message-ID: <c5e62c04-d880-02ec-a394-90586d535dc5@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611171626160.13016@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611171626160.13016@fledge.watson.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 11/17/16 17:45, doug wrote: > My is simpler than booting the "monster" > > I had to replace my workstation. It was supposed to come with windows > 7 that I was going to toss. As it came with 10 I shrunk the windows > partition and installed 10.3. Getting: > > => 63 3907029105 ada0 MBR (1.8T) > 63 1985 - free - (993K) > 2048 204800 1 ntfs (100M) > 206848 833284096 2 ntfs (397G) > 833490944 1 - free - (512B) > 833490945 3070230471 4 freebsd [active] (1.4T) > 3903721416 1769528 - free - (864M) > 3905490944 1536000 3 !39 (750M) > 3907026944 2224 - free - (1.1M) > > => 0 3070230471 ada0s4 BSD (1.4T) > 0 6291456 1 freebsd-ufs (3.0G) > 6291456 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) > 14680064 41943040 4 freebsd-ufs (20G) > 56623104 83886080 5 freebsd-ufs (40G) > 140509184 2929721286 6 freebsd-ufs (1.4T) > 3070230470 1 - free - (512B) > > The FBSD install overwrote the MBR to boot the BSD partition. Can I > [easily] get a duel boot out of this. Or, is there a better way to > install FBSD as not to wipe out what's there? > _______________________________________________ Yes, that is what I have now before trying zfs raidz-1 I have Win7 and FreeBSD, I don't know if win10 boots the same as Win7 so can try this it you want to Boot FreeBSD then as root: boot0cfg -B ad0 That will overwrite the boot loader with boot0 then when you reboot you will get a boot menu that has F1 Win F2 Win F3 FreeBSD You can then choose which one you want to boot
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?c5e62c04-d880-02ec-a394-90586d535dc5>