Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:26:46 +0100 From: S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7? Message-ID: <20100405162646.00000b79@unknown> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004050837560.20336@wonkity.com> References: <20100404000942.00003960@unknown> <faecae493816d417c6cb7e0b8696802d.squirrel@www.eskk.nu> <20100404092227.GA2632@chimera.vickiandstacey.com> <p2ib10011eb1004050602k592c1d79ie5c17c66ee57b38f@mail.gmail.com> <20100405141513.00005c14@unknown> <h2yb10011eb1004050624j8cab955bq761cdb1a889cde22@mail.gmail.com> <20100405144336.00007ba5@unknown> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004050837560.20336@wonkity.com>
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Hello Warren, Great to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:10:47 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: > > Hello Masoom, > > > >>>> I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now > >>> > >>> That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with > >>> a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** > >>> FreeBSD, please? > > EasyBCD worked for me on a preinstalled Vista machine, adding FreeBSD > 8. And of course Vista is just Win7 alpha. > Understood - only realized this over the past 24 hours., > >> Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes > >> can read/write do not want to use fusefs > >> > >> first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use > >> EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry > >> remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. > >> > > > > Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting "None > > Leave Master Boot Record untouched" actually did work - and you did > > **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the > > mbr? > > No problem for me. > > > Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few > > people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, > > and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. > > There's a relatively rare bug in sysinstall, but even if there > wasn't, you should still back up the existing MBR and the whole > Windows partition before you add another OS. > > For backup, you can use the FreeBSD livefs and dd, but clonezilla or > partimage are faster. Clonezilla automatically saves a separate copy > of the MBR, AFAIR. > That's excellent information. I was unsure of the status of sysinstall's integrity as far as the efficacy of these option selections. Will have a go shortly. Regards, S Roberts > http://www.clonezilla.org/ > http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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