boot manager vista

[Chris Rees]

2009/4/17 Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>:
> John Beukema wrote:
>> I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an
>> ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop.
>>
>> I installed the latest version
>> of FBSD on partition 3.  Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed
>> partition with the Windows Vista Home system to install and
>> backup.  partition 2 is Windows after installation.
>>
>> I installed the boot0 manager.  it worked for bsd but not
>> vista and i had to reinstall windows.
>>
>> after I could not access fbsd other than by setting partition 3
>> active which again denied access to windows.  fbsd is there and
>> boots.
>>
>> How can I install a boot manager to be able to use both Vista and fbsd?
>>
>> John Beukema
>>
>>
>>
> For Vista, the easiest way is to use EasyBCD (free). Do not install the
> FreeBSD boot manager on the MBR.
>
> http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
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Interesting, it worked fine for me, dual booting with Vista and
FreeBSD. I think I may have used EasyBCD to put the BCD code in the
Vista partition's boot sector instead of the MBR, but don't quote me
on that. All I can say is, it's definitely possible.

Chris

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