Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> I've always meant to submit it as a PR, but found the send-pr(1) too > daunting. (It is impossible/undesirable for me to have a working mail > sender on my system and I have not yet found a way for send-pr(1) to > work in offline mode for delayed sending by a different machine.) Easy. Just run s

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:52:16 +0200 Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 > > > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > > > > ... The code in i386/boot2 and > > > > lib/

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 > > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > > ... The code in i386/boot2 and > > > lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a > > > BSD partition of an fd

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread perryh
Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > ... The code in i386/boot2 and > > lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a > > BSD partition of an fdisk "primary partition" (aka slice), > > or in a GPT partition, and would need ad

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-26 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > d...@safeport.com wrote: > > > If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, > > that would be a very useful howto. > > _Installing_ it in an "extended partition" is easy enough. > geom(8) understands "extended partitions"

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
d...@safeport.com wrote: > If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, > that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an "extended partition" is easy enough. geom(8) understands "extended partitions" (although sysinstall does not, so you need to install using Fixit# as for othe

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote: At 16:36 24/06/2011, d...@safeport.com wrote: 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

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 16:36 24/06/2011, d...@safeport.com wrote: 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

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
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 wo

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
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.s

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Damien Fleuriot
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/105

Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-23 Thread doug
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 u