From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 23 13:48:41 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 AC81E1065679 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:48:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from angrywolf2009@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A178FC19 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so2710979bwz.3 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:48:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=s0PYOFgPU9FRsB7X3303Fkrdwaw6EO/mWMdi9MeOHs0=; b=RGiMJOHiJVQ2D5ZKikyDs23+M/6e3MHO7YIC+7KjsJ2JCwbGiDLuEdPLGKELTGYuVl IJs07pRanFBT8gckcZmHcmia5XlAwZhmgDZrcH128n7eJm5MOr5/uT4XFMSVz7TephcJ uJqtPzjZJQB2WIKYsiIW5JHSk0Oe3MH0W9+f0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=psISXuz0vEJ5nyRJJP5V/d6tb6PXaozwOi5TzJ91iYzbgCUCiMAOFeqpZtpnnIp72X WVDKuvEaxZfQOU3R4UTMnaulHWqUd0fHpAvtR1irndlImhtr+B2p8HtTNgKi1fuPgW5C Oo7p+12j3fkyP0i/l4MO6gNBKSY+Q5AP1qmzc= Received: by 10.204.36.207 with SMTP id u15mr851718bkd.187.1266931021652; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.7? (91.82.178.48.pool.invitel.hu [91.82.178.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm1824684bwz.1.2010.02.23.05.17.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:17:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B83D545.3030603@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:16:53 +0100 From: AngryWolf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <532b03711002230420q26051014lc9475e03c7e12773@mail.gmail.com> <20100223135837.2b776af6.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100223135837.2b776af6.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 13:48:41 -0000 Even if you installed FreeBSD *before* Windows, you can restore the FreeBSD boot manager with sysinstall (select the Custom installation from the main menu), for example. Or GRUB can also be another way to go, of course. -- AngryWolf On 2010.02.23. 13:58, Polytropon wrote: > FreeBSD brings its own boot manager that can be installed. > As far as I know, it should be installed after the "Windows" > installation, because it would be overwritten otherwise. > > If you're planning to also use Linux, I think GRUB may > be a good solution. > > As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be > more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. >