Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 23:26:04 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic@diktia.dyndns.org> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet? Message-ID: <463B96DC.9010802@diktia.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <C260F332.3E2%freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <C260F332.3E2%freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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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, > The Grub bootloader has no trouble booting both Vista and FreeBSD. I created a small boot partition with a gparted live CD, installed grub using a linux live/rescue cd and added stanzas for Vista and Freebsd. Vista is chainloaded much the same way XP was. Worked without problems. At least for a day or two, then I ditched Vista :)
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