2009/4/17 Manolis Kiagias <sonic200...@gmail.com>: > John Beukema wrote: >> I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an >> ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop. >> >> I installed the latest version >> of FBSD on partition 3. Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed >> partition with the Windows Vista Home system to install and >> backup. partition 2 is Windows after installation. >> >> I installed the boot0 manager. it worked for bsd but not >> vista and i had to reinstall windows. >> >> after I could not access fbsd other than by setting partition 3 >> active which again denied access to windows. fbsd is there and >> boots. >> >> How can I install a boot manager to be able to use both Vista and fbsd? >> >> John Beukema >> >> >> > For Vista, the easiest way is to use EasyBCD (free). Do not install the > FreeBSD boot manager on the MBR. > > http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
Interesting, it worked fine for me, dual booting with Vista and FreeBSD. I think I may have used EasyBCD to put the BCD code in the Vista partition's boot sector instead of the MBR, but don't quote me on that. All I can say is, it's definitely possible. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ 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"
