Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I've always meant to submit it as a PR, but found the send-pr(1) too daunting. (It is impossible/undesirable for me to have a working mail sender on my system and I have not yet found a way for send-pr(1) to work in offline mode for delayed sending by a different machine.) Easy. Just run

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread perryh
Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... The code in i386/boot2 and lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a BSD partition of an fdisk primary partition (aka slice), or in a GPT partition, and

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... The code in i386/boot2 and lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a BSD partition of

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:52:16 +0200 Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... The code in

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-26 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: d...@safeport.com wrote: If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an extended partition is easy enough. geom(8) understands extended partitions (although

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. The answer is found in

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 09:08 24/06/2011, you wrote: On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. The answer is found in

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote: At 09:08 24/06/2011, you wrote: On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
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

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
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

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
d...@safeport.com wrote: If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an extended partition is easy enough. geom(8) understands extended partitions (although sysinstall does not, so you need to install using Fixit# as for other

Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-23 Thread doug
I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. The answer is found in http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html. Basically you