On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote:
At 09:08 24/06/2011, you wrote:
On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote:
> I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even
though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or
bootrec does not work.
>
> The answer is found in
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html.
>
> Basically you use diskpart to make sure that only the windows partition
is marked active and then run the Startup Repair process 3 times. This is
the only option that worked for me.
I can swear you chose to install a blank (empty) mbr as opposed to leaving
the current one untouched.
No, i had the same problem on my laptop. It's a known issue in sysinstall
since 6.x version that on some systems, no matter what you select, it always
erase the mbr.
For doug, you can use Hiren's Boot to start Windows. In fact, you can use it
as a hidden partition system, without it, it won't startup.
Well for me it all worked well for all versions of FreeBSD until Windows 7. My
main purpose was to document the link given to me by a friend who does user
support for a local college. Before Vista the boot process was pretty simple,
the MBR was one sector on sector 0, track 0 and it read the first sector of the
target partition who took it from there.
My experience with FreeBSD 7.0 to present has been that the install does not
work with Windows 7. It appears that the MBR can still only have 4 entries.
Windows 7 gets more by using extended partitions. Dell, the there can be only
one and let it be Windows company, uses two small partitions for something. It
may be that some of that underlying stuff is not needed but I had enough trouble
without without making changes at that level.
If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very
useful howto.
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Douglas Denault
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d...@safeport.com
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