From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 17 23:38:20 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8638C47EE2 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [198.74.231.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A3514D3 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3727146C80; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:38:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (doug@localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id uAHNcJgg025929; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:38:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id uAHNcJVp025926; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:38:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:38:19 -0500 (EST) From: doug Reply-To: doug@safeport.com To: Baho Utot cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another boot question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:38:20 -0500 (EST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:38:21 -0000 On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: > > On 11/17/16 17:45, doug wrote: >> My is simpler than booting the "monster" >> >> I had to replace my workstation. It was supposed to come with windows 7 >> that I was going to toss. As it came with 10 I shrunk the windows partition >> and installed 10.3. Getting: >> >> => 63 3907029105 ada0 MBR (1.8T) >> 63 1985 - free - (993K) >> 2048 204800 1 ntfs (100M) >> 206848 833284096 2 ntfs (397G) >> 833490944 1 - free - (512B) >> 833490945 3070230471 4 freebsd [active] (1.4T) >> 3903721416 1769528 - free - (864M) >> 3905490944 1536000 3 !39 (750M) >> 3907026944 2224 - free - (1.1M) >> >> => 0 3070230471 ada0s4 BSD (1.4T) >> 0 6291456 1 freebsd-ufs (3.0G) >> 6291456 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) >> 14680064 41943040 4 freebsd-ufs (20G) >> 56623104 83886080 5 freebsd-ufs (40G) >> 140509184 2929721286 6 freebsd-ufs (1.4T) >> 3070230470 1 - free - (512B) >> >> The FBSD install overwrote the MBR to boot the BSD partition. Can I >> [easily] get a duel boot out of this. Or, is there a better way to install >> FBSD as not to wipe out what's there? >> _______________________________________________ > > Yes, that is what I have now before trying zfs raidz-1 > > I have Win7 and FreeBSD, I don't know if win10 boots the same as Win7 so > can try this it you want to > > Boot FreeBSD then as root: > > boot0cfg -B ad0 > > That will overwrite the boot loader with boot0 then when you reboot you will > get a boot menu that has > F1 Win > F2 Win > F3 FreeBSD > > You can then choose which one you want to boot Perfect thanks, worked fine. I did not think that command wrote the multiboot mbr.