Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:01:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205240657380.53872@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20120523224122.GA71528@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20120523214906.GA71149@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <201205231932.06706.lobo@bsd.com.br> <20120523224122.GA71528@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > >> On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have been searching through questions and forums for information >>> on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. >>> >>> My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be >>> contradictory. I am not sure which to believe. >>> >>> My new machine has two disk drives. Windows 7 is on ad0 and I want >>> to put FreeBSD 8.3 on ad1, leaving W7 as is. So, I don't even have >>> to shrink a primary slice to do this. >> >> Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't you >> make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose which >> drive to boot from? > > That surely seems the hard way. Why interrupt the boot and go > in to the BIOS every time when that is all provided for in the > boot structure? It depends on the system, but many have a boot menu that is less intrusive than a multi-boot loader. F11 or F12 usually. Otherwise, EasyBCD works.
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