From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 16:05:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF830106564A for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:05:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942258FC14 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6428C10EE01; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:08:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id C2TO3vH7-a1b; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:08:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC4710EDFE; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:08:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4BBA0A56.9020908@eskk.nu> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:05:42 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Masoom Shaikh References: <20100404000942.00003960@unknown> <20100404092227.GA2632@chimera.vickiandstacey.com> <20100405141513.00005c14@unknown> <20100405144336.00007ba5@unknown> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , S Roberts Subject: Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:05:50 -0000 > so here is one trick if you got guts to try :). I recently got saved > with this trick > > you have Win7 pre-installed, now free up some space and let FreeBSD > install, select the option "do not touch mbr". Next boot you will find > Win7 gone. Boot from Win7 CD and let it install at same location where > it is/was installed. Setup will warn you of already existing > installation. It might additionally say that it will move old > installation to "Windows.old" folder. Ignore this warning and let > setup continue. If I remember correctly the second option is > Extracting Windows Files(percentage). Let it come to second step and > execute it for a 5 mins, then cancel the setup, ignore all warning and > it will undo all changes, but by that time it will already have fixed > the bootloader problem. After you cancel setup, give it all time it > needs to undo, don't force reboot/power down. > > hope this will enable you too install FreeBSD, a great development environment > have fun! I would use the fixboot command to fix this, or boot from PartedMagic CD and set the boot flag on that partition. /Leslie