FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

[Masoom Shaikh]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
> Hi Masoom,
>   Good to hear from you..,
>
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530
> Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts
>> <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Leslie,
>> >      Good to hear from you..,
>> >
>> > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html
>> >>
>> >> /Leslie
>> >>
>> >
>> > I had a look at the thread - thanks..,
>> >
>> > The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its
>> > compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually
>> > states that it supports windows 7.
>>
>> I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now
>>
>
> That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a
> pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added**
> FreeBSD, please?

Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions,
part1(c:) - NTFS
part2(d:) - FAT32
part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console
as free space

Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write
do not want to use fusefs

first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to
add FreeBSD as another entry
remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR.

have fun!!

>
> Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you
> select, please?

don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that

>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> S Roberts
>
>
>> >
>> > Or, am I missing something?
>> >
>> > I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to
>> > a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as
>> > well.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > S Roberts
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Hello,
>> >> > Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to
>> >> > where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7
>> >> > pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up,
>> >> > please?
>> >> >
>> >> > Any assistance is appreciated.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards,
>> >> >
>> >> > S Roberts
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