Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-27 Thread from_mars
Hi. Sorry for my english. I have a dual boot system, windows 7 64-bit (ada1) and FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 GEOM (ada0). I did it by installing FreeBSD boot0 on Windows HDD: boot0cfg -B ada1 then I choose Windows HDD as first boot drive in BIOS. Now at boot i have boot0 menu: F1 - Win

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: 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 al

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/23/12 14:49, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system, windows 7 (ad0) and FreeBSD 9-stable (ad1). I moved back to BIOS boot after (I think) windows upgrade stabbed ad0. I found the system with a blank screen in the AM. Using BIOS boot, The first windows screen had an up

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:41:22 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > 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 b

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread doug
On Wed, 23 May 2012, 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 bel

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
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

Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
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. Wind