Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 19:09:16 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet? Message-ID: <200705041909.16996.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070504210137.8154DB859@mail.totaldiver.net> References: <C260F332.3E2%freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070504210137.8154DB859@mail.totaldiver.net>
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On Friday 04 May 2007 16:01:38 Jeff Palmer wrote: > At 03:26 PM 5/4/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: > >Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how > >did you get around this issue? > > > >Thanks, > >-- > >Jonathan Horne > >freebsd@dfwlp.com > >http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org > > Jonathan, > > you may want to search the archives. I posed this same question a > while back, and then found a working solution. It involved getting > rid of the freebsd boot manager, and migrating to grub 0.94 > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" well, i hate it when this happens, but somehow i fixed it, but i have no idea what i did to eliminate the problem. unfortunatly, my methods were not very scientific, and i didnt bother to test after each step i took. things i did that could have been the fix: 1) inserting the vista install cd, and letting it run thru a repair session. it went kinda quick, and i didnt pay close attention to what it was doing, but it appeared to know exactly what the problem was and what to do. after this, i am 95% positive that it booted back into vista without pausing at the freebsd loader (ie, had restored the original bootloader). unfortunatly, i cant say for sure. 2) as i was installing the gag per recommendation, this ended what appeared to be successfully, but in the end, i didnt have gag. i was back at a working freebsd loader, and it now boots into either freebsd or vista without any complaints at all. *scratches head* oh well, ill take it. :) -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com
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