Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:38:13 -0700 From: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD Message-ID: <54594745.6050306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5459440D.8020200@hiwaay.net> References: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> <5459440D.8020200@hiwaay.net>
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On 11/04/2014 02:24 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 11/04/14 14:55, Christian Baer wrote: >> Good evening, everyone! >> >> A few days ago I bought myself a new computer - at long last! :-) I >> have been >> working with FreeBSD for quite a while now, but only ever on servers, >> never on >> a desktop-computer or a workstation. This time I took special care to >> make >> sure FreeBSD would run on all the hardware. Only catch: The case has >> no room >> for a FreeBSD badge. :-) >> >> I guess I was a little over-enthusiastic and installed FreeBSD right >> away. As >> you can see, I managed to get it running, including X, nvdidia-driver >> and >> sound. ;-) >> >> At times, I still like gaming and although I do not spend most of my >> computer >> time doing that, I did leave some room on my SSD for Windows. To be >> exact, I >> created three primary partitions (MBR style, Win7 is a pain with >> UEFI), one >> 100MB, one ~120GB (these two are for Windows) and one ~118GB for >> FreeBSD. >> >> My problem is that should I install Windows now, FreeBSD won't boot >> anymore, >> because Windows will replace the boot loader. If there is any >> documentation >> about using FreeBSD and Windows on one machine, it usually assumes that >> Windows was installed first. >> >> Does anybody know of some documentation or howto to install these two >> OSs the >> other way around? As you can imagine, I don't really fancy the idea of >> starting from scratch here. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions! >> >> Best regards, >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > > > Run winders as a VM ? $0.02, no more, no less ..... > > Hey Christian Baer, It is easy to restore FreeBSD bootloader. Just go to this web page: http://lqman.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/restore-freebsd-bootloader-after-installing-windows/
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