Re: win 7 dual boot
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11, aryeh.friedman@ wrote:
I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when
I installed vista I had to do some boot 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 "magic"
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 after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead of
via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on RC2
right now}]?
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You could attempt some trickery with grub if you have the option of
using it and if you are installing Win/7 to its own drive. Here is the
specs.
Install FreeBSD on your first drive ;) the way it should be...
Install GRUB from ports or packages whatever you prefer.
Edit your menu.lst file to contain something like:
title WINDO~7 ;)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0) (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Now reboot into your bios and turn off your FreeBSD drive and your
secondary drive should remain and to Windows 7 as long as it is staying
along the same lines as Windows XP will just accept your secondary as your
primary drive C: and just install its MBR to that drive.
After your done reboot into your BIOS turn your FreeBSD drive back on.
Tada! you now have a bootable system where grub swaps your drives around
for you and confuses Windows 7 into thinking its the primary C: drive and
you can upgrade without touching the first disks MBR.
I have this setup running on the machine I am writing this email from and
for fail-over sake if my FreeBSD disk takes a hike windows will pick right
back up without even noticing the first disk being gone. I have also
disabled my FreeBSD disk in windows devices just to be sure that nothing
happens to it as a cause of windows.
Anyway... Hope this gives you just another option to consider.
Best of luck.
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Re: win 7 dual boot
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:11:15 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> 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 after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g
> instead of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems
> {I am on RC2 right now}]?
I have FreeBSD papi 8.0-RC1 and fusefs works perfectly via mount & fstab.
Did you replace the original mount_ntfs with ntfs-3g like bellow?
cd /sbin
mv -f mount_ntfs mount_ntfs-kern
ln -s /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g mount_ntfs
After that, any call to mount_ntfs will grant RW to the disk.
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FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE)
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Re: win 7 dual boot
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:16:27PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Jack L. wrote:
> >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
> >
>
> I am attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-)
Sure. Then, probably doing as you said - install the Win7 and let it
do its thing and then reinstall the FreeBSD MBR. You should probably
be able to use the "Fixit" CD boot for that. I don't know EasyBCD,
but if it worked before, it will probably work with this too.
I don't think anything much has changed in that area.
jerry
> >On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition...
> >>when
> >>I installed vista I had to do some boot 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
> >>"magic"
> >>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 after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead
> >>of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on
> >>RC2
> >>right now}]?
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Re: win 7 dual boot
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:15 -0400 "Aryeh M. Friedman" wrote: > I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista > partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot 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 "magic" bytes in the mbr... does > anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues and/or any other > weirdness in reguards to dual booting? EasyBCD still works, but you'll need to register on the site and download the beta of 2.0 from the forums - the 1.x version won't work. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: win 7 dual boot
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
wrote:
> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when
> I installed vista I had to do some boot 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 "magic"
> 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 after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead
> of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on RC2
> right now}]?
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Re: win 7 dual boot
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
wrote:
> Jack L. wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> I am attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-)
>>
Oh, then you can just boot up the freebsd cd and then just install the
freebsd boot manager after installing windows 7.
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition...
>>> when
>>> I installed vista I had to do some boot 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
>>> "magic"
>>> 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 after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g
>>> instead
>>> of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on
>>> RC2
>>> right now}]?
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Re: win 7 dual boot
Jack L. wrote:
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
I am attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-)
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
wrote:
I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when
I installed vista I had to do some boot 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 "magic"
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 after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead
of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on RC2
right now}]?
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win 7 dual boot
I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition...
when I installed vista I had to do some boot 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 "magic" 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 after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g
instead of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems
{I am on RC2 right now}]?
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