Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Wed Feb 14 03:14:48 UTC 2007


On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST)
"Questions" <questions at totaldiver.net> wrote:

> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST)
> > "Questions" <questions at totaldiver.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> However,  when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's
> >> architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile.  I haven't dug
> >> into why, but I'm confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub
> >> becomes a non-option.  Gag has the same limitation of being i386
> >> only.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not sure why gag is i386 only, all it does is install a binary
> > floppy disk ISO. You can also install it from many Linux live CDs.
> > Once it's installed it's independent of the original installation
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> 
> To help anyone out who is also attempting to dualboot FreeBSD/amd64
> and Vista:  here is what I did.
> 
> Install Vista first.   Use the disk manager to create a partition (or
> resize the partition) to make room for FreeBSD.
> 
> reboot,  and install FreeBSD, installing a standard MBR (the machine
> will reboot directly into FreeBSD)
> 
> After back into a fresh FreeBSD,  do:
> sysinstall > Configure > Distributions > lib32   (this installs 32bit
> compatibility libraries.
> 
> Now fetch
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/grub.tbz
> (yes,  the i386 package)
> 
> pkg_add grub.tgz
> 
> It will now work in compatibility mode,  and you can use it same as
> you can with a native FreeBSD/i386.

FWIW gag will work without any of that, and will carry on working if
you replace the FreeBSD partition. 







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