From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 06:13:17 2008 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 58DAA106569A for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:13:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from hawk.thalamus.net (hawk.thalamus.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162488FC1A for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:13:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DED1EE8C9; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:13:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thalamus.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 2.389 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.389 tagged_above=-999 required=4.2 tests=[AWL=-0.780, HELO_LH_HOME=3.169] Received: from hawk.thalamus.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hawk.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Lv50uRN127km; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:13:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lesbsdpc.homenet.home (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A2E1EE8C6; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:13:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48E70977.8080808@eskk.nu> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:13:11 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081001) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Stuart References: <5cdef660810032141p567fad46vac8a7a6b0451e735@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5cdef660810032141p567fad46vac8a7a6b0451e735@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vista Dual Boot issues - Does not start on a track boundary 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, 04 Oct 2008 06:13:17 -0000 Tom Stuart skrev: > Hi Guys, > > I'm nowhere near new on the FreeBSD front but have Never done a dual > boot with vista. Vista came pre-installed on this machine and I > created another partition using the resize function of Vista. When I'm > setting up my slices its complaining about Chunk ad0S1 does not start > on a track boundary... > > Does anyone know if this is a common problem and the easiest way to > resolve this issue? I've tried going on and setting up the labels but > upon installation of packages it seems as though its having problem > doing a chroot due to the partitions not being setup correctly. I know > I could delete all slices and start out with freebsd and then install > vista but it would involve backing up approx. 150Gigs of data. I've > also done approximately 5 hours of searching archives, etc to no > avail. > > I've tried everything with no success on FreeBSD7.0 Release, 7.1 beta > and 8.0 current. > > Thanks, > > Tom Hi Tom I just made a dualboot machine out of my new Laptop. I used Gparted because the Vista resize wouldn't give me the space I wanted. Then I read in BSD Magazine that the Vista bootloader is a little different from the earlier Windows versions. The article mentioned a bootloader utility, "EasyBCD" http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Which I use. When your installation of FreeBSD is finished, (don't install the bootloader) the BSD partition will be the active partition and you will need to set the Vista partition active again with Gparted. Then boot into Vista and install the bootloader. /Leslie