From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 05:00:00 2009 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 3003F1065670 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.odonnell@shaw.ca) Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012C28FC0C for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd4ml2so-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.141.136]) by pd4mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 02 Oct 2009 22:31:27 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=1 a=KZUnyafJeRIA:10 a=VS9KpOasJCojx0UlWj6Qrw==:17 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=SIORbCCbvmEKeHX-atoA:9 a=b2xTswpiCE8z5JZMWQ0A:7 a=BEG6y1Lmqg8vC6A9p2sy42oIh8cA:4 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 Received: from unknown (HELO kashima.localnet) ([68.145.47.142]) by pd4ml2so-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 02 Oct 2009 22:31:27 -0600 From: "Mark O'Donnell" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:31:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-RC1; KDE/4.3.1; i386; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910022231.28732.m.odonnell@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: 7.2 Sysinstall choices -- existing multi-boot (based on Win7 RC's boot mgr) system 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: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0000 > Currently, I have Win/XP in slice 1, no slice 2, Win 7 RC in slice 3 and > Acronis' hidden part in slice 4. I have unallocated space after slice 1 > (about 45gb) I wanted to use for FreeBSD. > > I told sysinstall to create a slice (in the unallocated space), then create > FreeBSD partitions in it for /, paging, /usr, /var, /tmp & /home. I'm not > sure what I'm supposed to tell it about boot managers though? Right now > the MBR points to Acronis' recovery slice, which boots to Win 7's boot > manager, it defaults to Win/XP. When I said do nothing sysinstall marked > the new slice bootable, and FreeBSD does boot to a text menu with Beastie > on it. But, that doesn't give access to the OS's in slice 1 and 3? The default Windows MBR will simply just boot the active slice. When you created your FreeBSD slice it was automatically marked active. > if I tell it to use the default boot manager, (booteasy?), will it offer at > least access to what's currently in the master boot record & slice 2 > (FreeBSD)? Or do I need a way to tell Win7's boot manager about FreeBSD in > slice 2? > boot0 (aka BootEasy) will ask you what slice to boot from. If you've already installed FreeBSD you can replace your current MBR with: boot0cfg -B ad0 Just make sure to replace ad0 with your actual hdd device name. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >