Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

[Oleksandr Rudyk]

I have installed FBSD 7.0 RC1 several weeks ago on my Dell XPS laptop with
Vista.

During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR overwrite
Vista MBR and I lost my Vista.
Then I booted with Vista rescue CD and restore Vista MBR sector. So I got
Vista again but no FBSD.
The last step was to install EasyBSD and add record for my FBSD partition.
After reboot I got Vista Loader menu with Windows and FreeBSD loader
options.

Hope this helps

2008/1/28, Alphons Fonz van Werven <a.j.werven at student.utwente.nl>:
>
> Siraj Shaikh wrote:
>
> > How do I go about installing FreeBSD (6.3) on it now? Anyone has done
> > this already please?
>
> I had the exact same problem just a few days ago and two solutions were
> quickly posted here:
>
> 1: http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/FreeBSD_%26_Windows_Vista
>
> 2: When installing FreeBSD and you are asked what boot manager to install
>     select to not install anything. In this way your Vista boot will not
> be
>     affected. If after this you find that at startup you are not given ANY
>     choice but FreeBSD starts automatically, this is simply because it's
>     partition is marked active. Boot with a CD like Norton Partition Magic
>     or GParted and mark the Vista partition active. Boot Vista, then
>     download and install the EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
>     It is then trivial to add a stanza to Vista bootloader (!) to boot
>     FreeBSD.
>
> Hth,
>
> Alphons
>
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