Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:14:22 -0700 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: win 7 dual boot Message-ID: <ab581e310910271914w4b3b9971u7f6a2ab68a2d74f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> References: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com>
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I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just
installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot
manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
<aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... w=
hen
> I installed vista I had to =C2=A0do some =C2=A0boot manager tricks (both =
before and
> after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use
> EasyBCD to remake it in such a way that vista would still find it's "magi=
c"
> bytes in the mbr... does anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues and/=
or
> any other weirdness in reguards to dual booting?
>
> Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista
> partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/or
> /etc/fstab =C2=A0after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g i=
nstead
> of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on R=
C2
> right now}]?
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