Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 04:30:17 PST 2008


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Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote:
> Oleksandr Rudyk wrote:
>
>> During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR
>> overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista.
>
> Have you reported this yet? It might not be too late to fix it in
> 7.0-RELEASE.
>
> Oh, btw: 6.3-RELEASE did the same for me, but because I had tried
> the other trick I mentioned (the one described in the link),
> manually installing the FreeBSD boot manager fixed everything and
> gave me dual-boot.
>
> Alphons
>
Using straight fdisk from the command line should avoid this.

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