Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:26:46 +0100 From: S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7? Message-ID: <20100405162646.00000b79@unknown> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004050837560.20336@wonkity.com> References: <20100404000942.00003960@unknown> <faecae493816d417c6cb7e0b8696802d.squirrel@www.eskk.nu> <20100404092227.GA2632@chimera.vickiandstacey.com> <p2ib10011eb1004050602k592c1d79ie5c17c66ee57b38f@mail.gmail.com> <20100405141513.00005c14@unknown> <h2yb10011eb1004050624j8cab955bq761cdb1a889cde22@mail.gmail.com> <20100405144336.00007ba5@unknown> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004050837560.20336@wonkity.com>
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Hello Warren,
Great to hear from you..,
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:10:47 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote:
> > Hello Masoom,
> >
> >>>> 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?
>
> EasyBCD worked for me on a preinstalled Vista machine, adding FreeBSD
> 8. And of course Vista is just Win7 alpha.
>
Understood - only realized this over the past 24 hours.,
> >> 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?
>
> No problem for me.
>
> > 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.
>
> There's a relatively rare bug in sysinstall, but even if there
> wasn't, you should still back up the existing MBR and the whole
> Windows partition before you add another OS.
>
> For backup, you can use the FreeBSD livefs and dd, but clonezilla or
> partimage are faster. Clonezilla automatically saves a separate copy
> of the MBR, AFAIR.
>
That's excellent information. I was unsure of the status of
sysinstall's integrity as far as the efficacy of these option
selections.
Will have a go shortly.
Regards,
S Roberts
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>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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