Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:16:53 +0100, AngryWolf wrote: > Even if you installed FreeBSD *before* Windows, you can restore the > FreeBSD boot manager with sysinstall (select the Custom installation > from the main menu), for example. Well... in fact, that's not restoring the boot manager, this is re-installing the boot manager. :-) You can install the boot manager also from a FreeBSD live file system or fixit console, using the boot0cfg command, if I remember that procedure correctly. > Or GRUB can also be another way to go, > of course. Especially in conjunction with Linux as another OS on the disk, I think this would be the most comfortable solution. But as I said, I'm no multi-booter. =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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"
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
or simply do an fdisk -B bsdlabel -B /dev/ad0s2 or similar On 23 February 2010 13:16, AngryWolf wrote: > Even if you installed FreeBSD *before* Windows, you can restore the FreeBSD > boot manager with sysinstall (select the Custom installation from the main > menu), for example. Or GRUB can also be another way to go, of course. > > -- > AngryWolf > > > On 2010.02.23. 13:58, Polytropon wrote: > >> FreeBSD brings its own boot manager that can be installed. >> As far as I know, it should be installed after the "Windows" >> installation, because it would be overwritten otherwise. >> >> If you're planning to also use Linux, I think GRUB may >> be a good solution. >> >> As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be >> more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. >> >> > ___ > 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"
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
Even if you installed FreeBSD *before* Windows, you can restore the FreeBSD boot manager with sysinstall (select the Custom installation from the main menu), for example. Or GRUB can also be another way to go, of course. -- AngryWolf On 2010.02.23. 13:58, Polytropon wrote: FreeBSD brings its own boot manager that can be installed. As far as I know, it should be installed after the "Windows" installation, because it would be overwritten otherwise. If you're planning to also use Linux, I think GRUB may be a good solution. As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. ___ 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"
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:23:44 -0500, Leslie Jensen wrote: Angelin Lalev skrev 2010-02-23 13:20: Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I want to have Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. Any suggestions? ___ I use the following boot manager because when I set this up there was new behaviour of the Windows Vista boot method and it didn't play well with Freebsd's bootmanager. Today I run Windows 7 and Freebsd 8 on this system. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 You can find instructions in bsdmag on how to set it up. I'm using GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net/ -- Using Opera's 10.50 pre-Alpha -- because I'm a f*cking maniac! ___ 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"
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
Angelin Lalev skrev 2010-02-23 13:20: Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I want to have Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. Any suggestions? ___ I use the following boot manager because when I set this up there was new behaviour of the Windows Vista boot method and it didn't play well with Freebsd's bootmanager. Today I run Windows 7 and Freebsd 8 on this system. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 You can find instructions in bsdmag on how to set it up. http://bsdmag.org/app/files/download?attachment=attachment1&model=Article&model_id=9300&portal_id=134 Or http://bsdmag.org/pdf-articles And choose Download Free Issue: FreeBSD Ins & Outs /Leslie ___ 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"
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:20:27 +0200, Angelin Lalev wrote: > Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). > I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 > and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I > want to have > Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. > Any suggestions? FreeBSD brings its own boot manager that can be installed. As far as I know, it should be installed after the "Windows" installation, because it would be overwritten otherwise. If you're planning to also use Linux, I think GRUB may be a good solution. As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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"
Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I want to have Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. Any suggestions? ___ 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"
