On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote:
At 16:36 24/06/2011, d...@safeport.com wrote:
Well for me it all worked well for all versions of FreeBSD until Windows 7.
My main purpose was to document the link given to me by a friend who does
user support for a local college. Before Vista the boot process was pretty
simple, the MBR was one sector on sector 0, track 0 and it read the first
sector of the target partition who took it from there.
My experience with FreeBSD 7.0 to present has been that the install does
not work with Windows 7. It appears that the MBR can still only have 4
entries. Windows 7 gets more by using extended partitions. Dell, the there
can be only one and let it be Windows company, uses two small partitions
for something. It may be that some of that underlying stuff is not needed
but I had enough trouble without without making changes at that level.
In Vista the way that Windows start changed. The MBR points to a file inside
the Windows partition that have the partition scheme. It's called BCD. You
can install EasyBCD in windows (it's freeware with commercial licence) that
permits you to start Windows and other OS inside other partitions. I use it
in my trial? Win7/FreeBSD8.2/OpenBSD4.9 server and dual Win7/FreeBSD8.2
laptop.
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very
useful howto.
Don't know about it, perhaps using easybcd you can do that
Perhaps but I could not get FreeBSD in an extended partition. I am using easyBCD
to do the dual boot. In doing what I did I never distrubed the boot records in
the partitions. Once I got the MBR and the windows 7 second level boot code
restored, it all worked as advertised. The trick as outlined in the link to to
run the process 3 times booting after each time.
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Douglas Denault
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