From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 17 23:11:09 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1D9C4767F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cdptpa-oedge", Issuer "cdptpa-oedge" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E87B764A for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:11:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:55777] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id B5/FB-12962-A093E285; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:11:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.41] (helo=dell.example.org) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1c7Vpi-0001Fe-0D for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:11:06 -0500 Subject: Re: Yet another boot question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Baho Utot Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:11:05 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.6:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:11:09 -0000 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