Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:49:01 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: boot manager vista Message-ID: <b79ecaef0904170249o3d34757cs6c9fffbee24aa393@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49E82E18.4030204@gmail.com> References: <727969.43922.qm@web43401.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <49E82E18.4030204@gmail.com>
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2009/4/17 Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>: > John Beukema wrote: >> I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an >> ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop. >> >> I installed the latest version >> of FBSD on partition 3. =A0Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed >> partition with the Windows Vista Home system to install and >> backup. =A0partition 2 is Windows after installation. >> >> I installed the boot0 manager. =A0it worked for bsd but not >> vista and i had to reinstall windows. >> >> after I could not access fbsd other than by setting partition 3 >> active which again denied access to windows. =A0fbsd is there and >> boots. >> >> How can I install a boot manager to be able to use both Vista and fbsd? >> >> John Beukema >> >> >> > For Vista, the easiest way is to use EasyBCD (free). Do not install the > FreeBSD boot manager on the MBR. > > http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=3D1 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > Interesting, it worked fine for me, dual booting with Vista and FreeBSD. I think I may have used EasyBCD to put the BCD code in the Vista partition's boot sector instead of the MBR, but don't quote me on that. All I can say is, it's definitely possible. Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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