Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:16:27 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: win 7 dual boot Message-ID: <4AE7A97B.6020700@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ab581e310910271914w4b3b9971u7f6a2ab68a2d74f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> <ab581e310910271914w4b3b9971u7f6a2ab68a2d74f4@mail.gmail.com>
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Jack L. wrote:
> I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just
> installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot
> manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD
>
I am attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-)
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
> <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when
>> I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and
>> after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use
>> EasyBCD to remake it in such a way that vista would still find it's "magic"
>> bytes in the mbr... does anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues and/or
>> any other weirdness in reguards to dual booting?
>>
>> Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista
>> partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/or
>> /etc/fstab after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead
>> of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on RC2
>> right now}]?
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