Dual booting windows vista freebsd

Maybe someday, I'll sit down to focus on understanding it. It acts like something outside the OS, while a directory in it may be a part of it.

Edits less than about an hour later - It's easier to put each operating system on its own drive, so they can be selected from BIOS. Partitions can be copied to another disk. It would still be important to learn how to use GRUB. Storage is also better on a separate drive than from OS drives. One day, I'll also sit down and learn how to use boot0cfg 8.

I've needed to know how to use this ability in the past. Usually its best to keep windows on a separate disk where it doesn't matter if it borks the boot partitions. Zirias Son of Beastie Reaction score: 1, Messages: 2, Using grub is not supported by FreeBSD's installer, so you're on your own setting it up manually.

Maybe it might be easier to use some Linux live system to install and configure it. To anyone who wants a dual-boot system, I ask one thing: did you consider virtualization instead? There are some few usecases where a virtual machine isn't appropriate — but pretty often, it is and is more flexible. Regards, Hadi. I know nothing about Vista, but I guess you can try restoring its boot loader from the install cd.

This will fix the mbr. Install the freebsd boot manager through the option 'custom installation' at freebsd cd. Click to expand Thanks alot, it worked! You must log in or register to reply here. This unique id UID is used by Vista to determine what disk is what. It does make some sense, Hardware can shift around, but the UID should always be the same. The error message is semi appropriate but very misleading. Out on the web there is many solutions to the dreaded winload.

Many of them are misleading, some I believe are not even tested. I know I could always install the lib32 compatability distribution to use it but I wanted the default FreeBSD boot loader. Many people have given up on trying to use a normal boot loader, and instead use the Vista boot loader. There is many utilities that claim to fix the issue.

One such util is MBRFix. The simple fix is to tell Vista that the drive it boots off of will always be the drive it can find its files on. To do this you run:. I was in the process of checking your fix. The utility " ufs2tool - ufs for Windows " gives read access to a BSD partition. You run the tool and map Linux partition. You can benefit from installing ext2fsd tool later for copying any Linux file to Windows and vice versa - great tool!

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