Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions, part1(c:) - NTFS part2(d:) - FAT32 part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console as free space Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. have fun!! Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions, part1(c:) - NTFS part2(d:) - FAT32 part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console as free space Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting None Leave Master Boot Record untouched actually did work - and you did **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr? Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. Thanks again, Masoom. Regards, S Roberts have fun!! Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions, part1(c:) - NTFS part2(d:) - FAT32 part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console as free space Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting None Leave Master Boot Record untouched actually did work - and you did **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr? Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. Thanks again, Masoom. Regards, S Roberts have fun!! Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: Hello Masoom, I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? EasyBCD worked for me on a preinstalled Vista machine, adding FreeBSD 8. And of course Vista is just Win7 alpha. Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting None Leave Master Boot Record untouched actually did work - and you did **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr? No problem for me. Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. There's a relatively rare bug in sysinstall, but even if there wasn't, you should still back up the existing MBR and the whole Windows partition before you add another OS. For backup, you can use the FreeBSD livefs and dd, but clonezilla or partimage are faster. Clonezilla automatically saves a separate copy of the MBR, AFAIR. http://www.clonezilla.org/ http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello Warren, Great to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:10:47 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: Hello Masoom, I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? EasyBCD worked for me on a preinstalled Vista machine, adding FreeBSD 8. And of course Vista is just Win7 alpha. Understood - only realized this over the past 24 hours., Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting None Leave Master Boot Record untouched actually did work - and you did **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr? No problem for me. Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. There's a relatively rare bug in sysinstall, but even if there wasn't, you should still back up the existing MBR and the whole Windows partition before you add another OS. For backup, you can use the FreeBSD livefs and dd, but clonezilla or partimage are faster. Clonezilla automatically saves a separate copy of the MBR, AFAIR. That's excellent information. I was unsure of the status of sysinstall's integrity as far as the efficacy of these option selections. Will have a go shortly. Regards, S Roberts http://www.clonezilla.org/ http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions, part1(c:) - NTFS part2(d:) - FAT32 part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console as free space Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting None Leave Master Boot Record untouched actually did work - and you did **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr? Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. yes, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056100.html thread is actually correct, for me it is fresh install, in your case it is little tricky to get it straight for a fresh install you can install FreeBSD first then Win7, and then use EasyBSD. done. i guess, i have done that too. i.e. installed FreeBSD after Win7, then used Win7 CD to repair but take care, it can fail with that irritating send, don't send dialog box so here is one trick if you got guts to try :). I recently got saved with this trick you have Win7 pre-installed, now free up some space and let FreeBSD install, select the option do not touch mbr. Next boot you will find Win7 gone. Boot from Win7 CD and let it install at same location where it is/was installed. Setup will warn you of already existing installation. It might additionally say that it will move old installation to Windows.old folder. Ignore this warning and let setup continue. If I remember correctly the second option is Extracting Windows Files(percentage). Let it come to second step and execute it for a 5 mins, then cancel the setup, ignore all warning and it will undo all changes, but by that time it will already have fixed the bootloader problem. After you cancel setup, give it all time it needs to undo, don't force reboot/power down. hope this will enable you too install FreeBSD, a great development environment have fun! Thanks again, Masoom. Regards, S Roberts have fun!! Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
so here is one trick if you got guts to try :). I recently got saved with this trick you have Win7 pre-installed, now free up some space and let FreeBSD install, select the option do not touch mbr. Next boot you will find Win7 gone. Boot from Win7 CD and let it install at same location where it is/was installed. Setup will warn you of already existing installation. It might additionally say that it will move old installation to Windows.old folder. Ignore this warning and let setup continue. If I remember correctly the second option is Extracting Windows Files(percentage). Let it come to second step and execute it for a 5 mins, then cancel the setup, ignore all warning and it will undo all changes, but by that time it will already have fixed the bootloader problem. After you cancel setup, give it all time it needs to undo, don't force reboot/power down. hope this will enable you too install FreeBSD, a great development environment have fun! I would use the fixboot command to fix this, or boot from PartedMagic CD and set the boot flag on that partition. /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:56:39 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions, part1(c:) - NTFS part2(d:) - FAT32 part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console as free space Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting None Leave Master Boot Record untouched actually did work - and you did **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr? Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. yes, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056100.html thread is actually correct, for me it is fresh install, in your case it is little tricky to get it straight for a fresh install you can install FreeBSD first then Win7, and then use EasyBSD. done. Wiping the machine as you suggest is not an option. This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO** windows 7 install disks. i guess, i have done that too. i.e. installed FreeBSD after Win7, then used Win7 CD to repair but take care, it can fail with that irritating send, don't send dialog box I'd have like to have known this earlier.., I wasn't set to start until later this evening, so I guess its good to have found this out now. so here is one trick if you got guts to try :). I recently got saved with this trick you have Win7 pre-installed, now free up some space and let FreeBSD install, select the option do not touch mbr. Next boot you will find Win7 gone. Boot from Win7 CD and let it install at same location where it is/was installed. Setup will warn you of already existing installation. It might additionally say that it will move old installation to Windows.old folder. Ignore this warning and let setup continue. If I remember correctly the second option is Extracting Windows Files(percentage). Let it come to second step and execute it for a 5 mins, then cancel the setup, ignore all warning and it will undo all changes, but by that time it will already have fixed the bootloader problem. After you cancel setup, give it all time it needs to undo, don't force reboot/power down. hope this will enable you too install FreeBSD, a great development environment have fun! As I said above, the machine did not come with windows 7 installation media included. W Block earlier referred to the sysinstall mbr issue as a rare bug, but if you have yourself encountered this bug 6 months ago, then it would appear to have been broken for a long time. A search of PRs show; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:37:58 GMT: bin/86600: sysinstall(8): Sysinstall boot manager screen is misleading Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:03:41 -0800 (PST): bin/121124: sysinstall(8): FreeBSD 6.3 installation deletes MBR partition Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:11:51 GMT: bin/129771: sysinstall(8): 7.1 RC1 sysinstalls installs boot0 even when told not to I've been managing FreeBSD servers for years now, so I guess this type of issue did slip through my attention gap - even so, going by the earliest date there, seems like this ball has been dropping for a long time :-/ Thanks for the suggestions, Masoom. Regards, S Roberts Thanks again, Masoom. Regards, S Roberts have fun!! Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that Thanks! Regards, S Roberts
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO** windows 7 install disks. It's nice to make the first boot of a factory-fresh system from a backup CD like clonezilla and back up all of the partitions on the drive. That's before allowing them to boot into the manufacturer Windows setup. (PS: please trim your responses. Thanks.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello Warren, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:04:19 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO** windows 7 install disks. It's nice to make the first boot of a factory-fresh system from a backup CD like clonezilla and back up all of the partitions on the drive. That's before allowing them to boot into the manufacturer Windows setup. I can imagine. The machine was set up with the windows 7 install on half of the disk, and is already set up with the work-related commercial apps (visio, ip comm, borland, etc) that I can't get away from, so I am where I am at the moment as far as the window 7 section of this dual-boot plan is concerned. From where I sit, with (at least) three PRs already in for sysinstall's broken boot manager config, and with one going back as far as 2005, its not looking likely that anyone is interested in fixing this problem anytime soon. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts (PS: please trim your responses. Thanks.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
You can read this tread: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On 04.04.2010 11:22, Stacey Roberts wrote: The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. Or, am I missing something? BCD was the boot mechanism introduced with Vista and Server 2008, and continued in Windows 7 (actually 6.1) and Server 2008r2. //Svein -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +---+--- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle:SS16503-RIPE +---+--- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at svein-mob...@stillbilde.net This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello Svein, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: On 04.04.2010 11:22, Stacey Roberts wrote: The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. Or, am I missing something? BCD was the boot mechanism introduced with Vista and Server 2008, and continued in Windows 7 (actually 6.1) and Server 2008r2. Ahh.., Understood. Thank so much for that.., Regards, S Roberts //Svein -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +---+--- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle:SS16503-RIPE +---+--- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at svein-mob...@stillbilde.net This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ pgpnOXxwJVews.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
