vermaden Jun 29, 2011 #2 Still? I haven't seen its port on the http://freshports.org website, but the LILO successors like GRUB/GRUB2 are in Ports. LILO of course CAN boot FreeBSD 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 (at least UFS boot).
Still? I haven't seen its port on the http://freshports.org website, but the LILO successors like GRUB/GRUB2 are in Ports. LILO of course CAN boot FreeBSD 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 (at least UFS boot).
OP R roelof Jun 29, 2011 Thread Starter #3 Hello, Yes, still. On an earlier version I have used LILO to boot up Windows and FreeBSD. Roelof
vermaden Jun 29, 2011 #4 roelof said: On a earlier version I have used lilo to boot up Windows and Freebsd. Click to expand... You can still use LILO to boot FreeBSD, you will just not be able to run /sbin/lilo -v from within the FreeBSD OS.
roelof said: On a earlier version I have used lilo to boot up Windows and Freebsd. Click to expand... You can still use LILO to boot FreeBSD, you will just not be able to run /sbin/lilo -v from within the FreeBSD OS.
OP R roelof Jun 29, 2011 Thread Starter #5 Okay, Then the choice will be trying to make GRUB or easyBSD work to boot Windows 7 or FreeBSD. Roelof
Okay, Then the choice will be trying to make GRUB or easyBSD work to boot Windows 7 or FreeBSD. Roelof
SirDice Administrator Staff member Administrator Moderator Jun 29, 2011 #7 roelof said: Is LILO still available for FreeBSD 8 and 9? Click to expand... Why would the LInux LOader be available on FreeBSD?
roelof said: Is LILO still available for FreeBSD 8 and 9? Click to expand... Why would the LInux LOader be available on FreeBSD?
OP R roelof Jun 29, 2011 Thread Starter #8 Hello Vermaden. Nice one. But I install Windows 7 and FreeBSD on two different disks. Roelof
vermaden Jun 29, 2011 #9 roelof said: Nice one. But I install Windows 7 and FreeBSD on two different disks. Click to expand... ... and? SirDice said: Why would the LInux LOader be available on FreeBSD? Click to expand... Probably for the same reason why GRUB is in Ports
roelof said: Nice one. But I install Windows 7 and FreeBSD on two different disks. Click to expand... ... and? SirDice said: Why would the LInux LOader be available on FreeBSD? Click to expand... Probably for the same reason why GRUB is in Ports
OP R roelof Jun 29, 2011 Thread Starter #10 Hello, And the tutorial is assuming you have installed Windows 7 and FreeBSD on one disk. Roelof
OP R roelof Jun 29, 2011 Thread Starter #11 Hello, I have one problem. When I do [cmd=]cp /boot/boot1 /media/disk/freeBSD.mbr[/cmd] I see this message: Code: /media/disk/boot1: No such file or directory Roelof
Hello, I have one problem. When I do [cmd=]cp /boot/boot1 /media/disk/freeBSD.mbr[/cmd] I see this message: Code: /media/disk/boot1: No such file or directory Roelof
SirDice Administrator Staff member Administrator Moderator Jun 29, 2011 #12 Looks like it assumes your Windows partition is mounted on /media/disk/. Yours may have been mounted elsewhere. Keep in mind that the standard NTFS driver is read-only.
Looks like it assumes your Windows partition is mounted on /media/disk/. Yours may have been mounted elsewhere. Keep in mind that the standard NTFS driver is read-only.
OP R roelof Jun 29, 2011 Thread Starter #13 Okay, I found the fusefs-ntfs package and will try that one to achieve my goal. Or is there another way to copy /boot/boot1 to an NTFS drive? Roelof
Okay, I found the fusefs-ntfs package and will try that one to achieve my goal. Or is there another way to copy /boot/boot1 to an NTFS drive? Roelof
OP R roelof Jul 4, 2011 Thread Starter #14 Hello, I did the steps on this tutorial : http://bastian.rieck.ru/howtos/windows_boot_manager But now when I choose FreeBSD to boot I see a message that Windows is damaged and could not boot. Roelof
Hello, I did the steps on this tutorial : http://bastian.rieck.ru/howtos/windows_boot_manager But now when I choose FreeBSD to boot I see a message that Windows is damaged and could not boot. Roelof
