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. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > ////jerry > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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? ////jerry > > -- > Mario Lobo > http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br > FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
