Hello,
This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the Vista/Microsoft flames at the door) When I install FreeBSD/i386, I can then install grub (instead of FreeBSD's bootloader) and I can have grub "chainload" the Vista bootloader. All works fine. However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug into why, but I'm confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub becomes a non-option. Gag has the same limitation of being i386 only. Has anyone successfully been able to dual boot Vista + FreeBSD/amd64? I'm eager to have both on the laptop, however I've spent the entire weekend scouring google, and reinstalling both freebsd (i386 and amd64 versions) and have reinstalled vista at least 8 times. I've already thought about using the windows bootloader, but Vista has done away with NTLDR/boot.ini in favor of "BCD". editing BCD seems non-trivial at best, and frankly I'm getting tired of reinstalling OS's; so I thought I'd ask around instead of reinventing the wheel. Thank you in advance for any advice, or input. Also thanks in advance for leaving the irrelevant MS hatred out of the thread. - Jeff Palmer _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
