Dual booting

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kachukumma

Hello to everyone,

I have dual booting problem. I have Windows 7 in C: and it is installed and working. But now I have downloaded freeBSD FreeBSD and installed it on a physically separate drive, using the complete 160GB 160 GB space, all the drive for freeBSD FreeBSD. But now I cannot boot from freeBSD FreeBSD, I mean Windows 7 is working and booting and through Internet I learned about GRUB, but I don't know how to use it. I want to make this machine dual boot with Windows 7 and freeBSD FreeBSD, kindly help me because I am new at this. How to use GRUB or any other booting manager, if Windows is first installed and working?......... Thanks.
 
kachukumma said:
Hello to everyone,

I have dual booting problem. I have Windows 7 in C: and it is installed and working. But now I have downloaded freeBSD FreeBSD and installed it on a physically separate drive, using the complete 160GB 160 GB space, all the drive for freeBSD FreeBSD. But now I cannot boot from freeBSD FreeBSD, I mean Windows 7 is working and booting and through Internet I learned about GRUB, but I don't know how to use it. I want to make this machine dual boot with Windows 7 and freeBSD FreeBSD, kindly help me because I am new at this. How to use GRUB or any other booting manager, if Windows is first installed and working?......... Thanks.
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in FreeBSD it is called Boot Manager. Try boot once again from the installation CDROM and choose the
following options:

Configure->Fdisk->

Now select your FreeBSD hard drive (press space), and exit immediately
from the new menu shown ('q').

Now you'll have an option screen that lets you select BootMgr (the
FreeBSD boot manager).


PS: For more you should read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
 
Have a go with EasyBCD. It's free for personal use. It uses the built-in Windows bootmanager and should be able to boot FreeBSD.
 
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