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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:30:14 -0500
From:      "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Oleksandr Rudyk <alex.rudyk@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot
Message-ID:  <479F1C56.8010401@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <479F1BBB.2020008@student.utwente.nl>
References:  <3b2ddd940801281410o77b87c2ajbfbee2f5f276b934@mail.gmail.com>	<479E5903.100@student.utwente.nl>	<6e9d2bb40801281539l2e983011pff27c17073e6a8e5@mail.gmail.com> <479F1BBB.2020008@student.utwente.nl>

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Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote:
> Oleksandr Rudyk wrote:
>
>> During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR
>> overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista.
>
> Have you reported this yet? It might not be too late to fix it in
> 7.0-RELEASE.
>
> Oh, btw: 6.3-RELEASE did the same for me, but because I had tried
> the other trick I mentioned (the one described in the link),
> manually installing the FreeBSD boot manager fixed everything and
> gave me dual-boot.
>
> Alphons
>
Using straight fdisk from the command line should avoid this.

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