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

[S Roberts]

Hello Masoom,

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530
Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting "None Leave
Master Boot Record untouched" actually did work - and you did **NOT**
find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr?

Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few
people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected,
and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs.

Thanks again, Masoom.

Regards,

S Roberts

> 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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