Re: Dualboot with Windows 7
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap? I see you have installed everything into one / partition which technically is no problem and should work, but it's not on the boot partition. And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD didn't let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7. You need to install all the required stages for booting. If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs code to branch to the boot partition (which is supposed to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to be accessed from the beginning of the disk - you said you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay. I installed EasyBCD to add a new entry to FreeBSD on the third partition, but when I choose the FreeBSD entry nothing happens, only the _ character blinking. I assume missing boot characteristics as described above. Please review your installation process and maybe re-do it. In worst case, drop to command line for using the traditional toolset to apply the proper slicing and partitioning. According to man fdisk and man bsdlabel, you should be able to write the required boot characteristics to allow the correct boot process. Thus I tried bsdlabel -B ada0s3 from the FreeBSD iso shell but it didn't solve. What can I do to boot FreeBSD now? As this part is done, I suppose incorrect partitioning. 2.6.5 Creating Partitions Using Disklabel http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html Refer to table 2-2: Partition Layout for First Disk. Boot manager and MBR handling are also covered in this chapter. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Dualboot with Windows 7
On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap? I see you have installed everything into one / partition which technically is no problem and should work, but it's not on the boot partition. You're right, but I made a mistake while writing, my a partition is / and b is swap. And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD didn't let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7. You need to install all the required stages for booting. If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs code to branch to the boot partition (which is supposed to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to be accessed from the beginning of the disk - you said you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay. I followed the part 13.3.2 from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html I think this should be enough, isn't it? it says bsdlabel -B will replace the boot1 and boot2 stage so all of them are installed. Now the question is how to branch the a partition as the boot partition ? I installed EasyBCD to add a new entry to FreeBSD on the third partition, but when I choose the FreeBSD entry nothing happens, only the _ character blinking. I assume missing boot characteristics as described above. Please review your installation process and maybe re-do it. In worst case, drop to command line for using the traditional toolset to apply the proper slicing and partitioning. According to man fdisk and man bsdlabel, you should be able to write the required boot characteristics to allow the correct boot process. Thus I tried bsdlabel -B ada0s3 from the FreeBSD iso shell but it didn't solve. What can I do to boot FreeBSD now? As this part is done, I suppose incorrect partitioning. 2.6.5 Creating Partitions Using Disklabel http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html Refer to table 2-2: Partition Layout for First Disk. Boot manager and MBR handling are also covered in this chapter. -- David Demelier ___ 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: Dualboot with Windows 7
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap? I see you have installed everything into one / partition which technically is no problem and should work, but it's not on the boot partition. You're right, but I made a mistake while writing, my a partition is / and b is swap. Okay. And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD didn't let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7. You need to install all the required stages for booting. If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs code to branch to the boot partition (which is supposed to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to be accessed from the beginning of the disk - you said you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay. I followed the part 13.3.2 from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html I think this should be enough, isn't it? it says bsdlabel -B will replace the boot1 and boot2 stage so all of them are installed. Looks correct. Now the question is how to branch the a partition as the boot partition ? No need. As soon as the branching from ada0-start - ada0s3 has been processed, the 'a' partition ada0s3a will be accessed as it is the boot partition. It will then continue stage 1 and 2 and finally access the loader, which will load the kernel. In 13.3.2 it is explained as follows: They [Stage One, /boot/boot1, and Stage Two, /boot/boot2] are located outside file systems, in the first track of the boot slice, starting with the first sector. This is where boot0, or any other boot manager, expects to find a program to run which will continue the boot process. The number of sectors used is easily determined from the size of /boot/boot. In your case, the boot slice (for FreeBSD) is ada0s3 where the boot manager EasyBCD will branch to. Getting just a cursor (as you described) makes it hard to identify where the process hangs. If EasyBCD is the last thing you see, I assume the FreeBSD boot process isn't even initiated. Every part of it (MBR boot manager, boot0, boot1, boot2 and loader) would issue some kind of text when accessed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Dualboot with Windows 7
On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap? I see you have installed everything into one / partition which technically is no problem and should work, but it's not on the boot partition. You're right, but I made a mistake while writing, my a partition is / and b is swap. Okay. And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD didn't let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7. You need to install all the required stages for booting. If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs code to branch to the boot partition (which is supposed to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to be accessed from the beginning of the disk - you said you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay. I followed the part 13.3.2 from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html I think this should be enough, isn't it? it says bsdlabel -B will replace the boot1 and boot2 stage so all of them are installed. Looks correct. Now the question is how to branch the a partition as the boot partition ? No need. As soon as the branching from ada0-start - ada0s3 has been processed, the 'a' partition ada0s3a will be accessed as it is the boot partition. It will then continue stage 1 and 2 and finally access the loader, which will load the kernel. In 13.3.2 it is explained as follows: They [Stage One, /boot/boot1, and Stage Two, /boot/boot2] are located outside file systems, in the first track of the boot slice, starting with the first sector. This is where boot0, or any other boot manager, expects to find a program to run which will continue the boot process. The number of sectors used is easily determined from the size of /boot/boot. In your case, the boot slice (for FreeBSD) is ada0s3 where the boot manager EasyBCD will branch to. Getting just a cursor (as you described) makes it hard to identify where the process hangs. If EasyBCD is the last thing you see, I assume the FreeBSD boot process isn't even initiated. Every part of it (MBR boot manager, boot0, boot1, boot2 and loader) would issue some kind of text when accessed. I couldn't say exactly how to do this now (been a long time), but you should be able to boot using the Windows loader (this may have changed in recent editions. Don't think so though). This will give you a choice between Windows or FreeBSD and defaults, timers, etc during boot. Used to be able to do it under system properties I believe; run a google search should provide some examples. ___ 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: Dualboot with Windows 7
2012-03-19 08:53, Da Rock skrev: On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap? I see you have installed everything into one / partition which technically is no problem and should work, but it's not on the boot partition. You're right, but I made a mistake while writing, my a partition is / and b is swap. Okay. And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD didn't let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7. You need to install all the required stages for booting. If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs code to branch to the boot partition (which is supposed to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to be accessed from the beginning of the disk - you said you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay. I followed the part 13.3.2 from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html I think this should be enough, isn't it? it says bsdlabel -B will replace the boot1 and boot2 stage so all of them are installed. Looks correct. Now the question is how to branch the a partition as the boot partition ? No need. As soon as the branching from ada0-start - ada0s3 has been processed, the 'a' partition ada0s3a will be accessed as it is the boot partition. It will then continue stage 1 and 2 and finally access the loader, which will load the kernel. In 13.3.2 it is explained as follows: They [Stage One, /boot/boot1, and Stage Two, /boot/boot2] are located outside file systems, in the first track of the boot slice, starting with the first sector. This is where boot0, or any other boot manager, expects to find a program to run which will continue the boot process. The number of sectors used is easily determined from the size of /boot/boot. In your case, the boot slice (for FreeBSD) is ada0s3 where the boot manager EasyBCD will branch to. Getting just a cursor (as you described) makes it hard to identify where the process hangs. If EasyBCD is the last thing you see, I assume the FreeBSD boot process isn't even initiated. Every part of it (MBR boot manager, boot0, boot1, boot2 and loader) would issue some kind of text when accessed. I couldn't say exactly how to do this now (been a long time), but you should be able to boot using the Windows loader (this may have changed in recent editions. Don't think so though). This will give you a choice between Windows or FreeBSD and defaults, timers, etc during boot. Used to be able to do it under system properties I believe; run a google search should provide some examples. Using EasyBCD you must ensure that your Windows partition has the boot flag set. /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 ___ 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: Dualboot with Windows 7
On 19/03/2012 17:53, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-03-19 08:53, Da Rock skrev: On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap? I see you have installed everything into one / partition which technically is no problem and should work, but it's not on the boot partition. You're right, but I made a mistake while writing, my a partition is / and b is swap. Okay. And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD didn't let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7. You need to install all the required stages for booting. If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs code to branch to the boot partition (which is supposed to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to be accessed from the beginning of the disk - you said you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay. I followed the part 13.3.2 from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html I think this should be enough, isn't it? it says bsdlabel -B will replace the boot1 and boot2 stage so all of them are installed. Looks correct. Now the question is how to branch the a partition as the boot partition ? No need. As soon as the branching from ada0-start - ada0s3 has been processed, the 'a' partition ada0s3a will be accessed as it is the boot partition. It will then continue stage 1 and 2 and finally access the loader, which will load the kernel. In 13.3.2 it is explained as follows: They [Stage One, /boot/boot1, and Stage Two, /boot/boot2] are located outside file systems, in the first track of the boot slice, starting with the first sector. This is where boot0, or any other boot manager, expects to find a program to run which will continue the boot process. The number of sectors used is easily determined from the size of /boot/boot. In your case, the boot slice (for FreeBSD) is ada0s3 where the boot manager EasyBCD will branch to. Getting just a cursor (as you described) makes it hard to identify where the process hangs. If EasyBCD is the last thing you see, I assume the FreeBSD boot process isn't even initiated. Every part of it (MBR boot manager, boot0, boot1, boot2 and loader) would issue some kind of text when accessed. I couldn't say exactly how to do this now (been a long time), but you should be able to boot using the Windows loader (this may have changed in recent editions. Don't think so though). This will give you a choice between Windows or FreeBSD and defaults, timers, etc during boot. Used to be able to do it under system properties I believe; run a google search should provide some examples. Using EasyBCD you must ensure that your Windows partition has the boot flag set. /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 ___ 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 I reinstalled using the auto scheme, by adding a partition now it works. Thanks for your answers! Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ 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: Dualboot with Windows 7
On 19 March 2012 17:46, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/03/2012 17:53, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-03-19 08:53, Da Rock skrev: On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap? I see you have installed everything into one / partition which technically is no problem and should work, but it's not on the boot partition. You're right, but I made a mistake while writing, my a partition is / and b is swap. Okay. And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD didn't let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7. You need to install all the required stages for booting. If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs code to branch to the boot partition (which is supposed to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to be accessed from the beginning of the disk - you said you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay. I followed the part 13.3.2 from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html I think this should be enough, isn't it? it says bsdlabel -B will replace the boot1 and boot2 stage so all of them are installed. Looks correct. Now the question is how to branch the a partition as the boot partition ? No need. As soon as the branching from ada0-start - ada0s3 has been processed, the 'a' partition ada0s3a will be accessed as it is the boot partition. It will then continue stage 1 and 2 and finally access the loader, which will load the kernel. In 13.3.2 it is explained as follows: They [Stage One, /boot/boot1, and Stage Two, /boot/boot2] are located outside file systems, in the first track of the boot slice, starting with the first sector. This is where boot0, or any other boot manager, expects to find a program to run which will continue the boot process. The number of sectors used is easily determined from the size of /boot/boot. In your case, the boot slice (for FreeBSD) is ada0s3 where the boot manager EasyBCD will branch to. Getting just a cursor (as you described) makes it hard to identify where the process hangs. If EasyBCD is the last thing you see, I assume the FreeBSD boot process isn't even initiated. Every part of it (MBR boot manager, boot0, boot1, boot2 and loader) would issue some kind of text when accessed. I couldn't say exactly how to do this now (been a long time), but you should be able to boot using the Windows loader (this may have changed in recent editions. Don't think so though). This will give you a choice between Windows or FreeBSD and defaults, timers, etc during boot. Used to be able to do it under system properties I believe; run a google search should provide some examples. Using EasyBCD you must ensure that your Windows partition has the boot flag set. /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 ___ 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 I reinstalled using the auto scheme, by adding a partition now it works. Thanks for your answers! Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ 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 have you tried fdisk -B ada0 to install the bsd bootloader? ___ 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
