Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?
Jason P. Thomas
jthomasp at gmualumni.org
Fri May 4 20:40:21 UTC 2007
Jonathan Horne wrote:
> Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was
> actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The
> normal boot loader worked exactly as expected.
>
> So, upgraded the XP to vista, which seemed to go perfectly normal. Got
> everything the way I wanted it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted.
> Went to fixit console, and did a
>
> Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0
>
> Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine. Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and
> kaboom. Winboot.exe is missing!
>
> Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how
> did you get around this issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
I have my laptop dualbooting Vista and FreeBSD. I did the install
shortly after vista came out and at the time the FreeBSD boot loader did
not boot Vista. I installed the GAG boot manager and it works like a champ.
--Jay
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