Good afternoon,
I am hoping to dual-boot Windows / FreeBSD on a Vaio netbook (vpcyb1s1e). Because I don't want to mess around with the existing Windows 7 hdd I am trying to get FreeBSD to run from an SD card, for which this machine has an internal slot (no stick sticking out). Burning the USB install image to a USB stick and installing from there onto a 16Gb SD card seemed to work ok, what I am struggling with is getting the system to boot using the SD card. The BIOS will only boot from HDD or USB and not from the internal SD/MS slots. I found a howto on using the Windows boot manager on http://bastian.rieck.ru/howtos/windows_boot_manager/ with bcdedit, but that one doesn't give the desired result, either 'Boot error' when using boot1 as per howto, or an incomplete looking boot menu when using boot0. The SD card in a reader attached to a USB port will boot until, not unexpectedly, the process tries to mount it's filesytems.
I'd like to be able to boot into FreeBSD, the existing bootmanager would be preferred, as that requires no additional things to be brought along (the SD card can remain in the slot), but if that keeps failing a usb stick with bootmanager (grub?) could be usable, I suppose it can be detached once Freebsd has started.
PC-BSD is perhaps an option, but I expect to run into a similar problem with it.
Thank you for your time.
I am hoping to dual-boot Windows / FreeBSD on a Vaio netbook (vpcyb1s1e). Because I don't want to mess around with the existing Windows 7 hdd I am trying to get FreeBSD to run from an SD card, for which this machine has an internal slot (no stick sticking out). Burning the USB install image to a USB stick and installing from there onto a 16Gb SD card seemed to work ok, what I am struggling with is getting the system to boot using the SD card. The BIOS will only boot from HDD or USB and not from the internal SD/MS slots. I found a howto on using the Windows boot manager on http://bastian.rieck.ru/howtos/windows_boot_manager/ with bcdedit, but that one doesn't give the desired result, either 'Boot error' when using boot1 as per howto, or an incomplete looking boot menu when using boot0. The SD card in a reader attached to a USB port will boot until, not unexpectedly, the process tries to mount it's filesytems.
I'd like to be able to boot into FreeBSD, the existing bootmanager would be preferred, as that requires no additional things to be brought along (the SD card can remain in the slot), but if that keeps failing a usb stick with bootmanager (grub?) could be usable, I suppose it can be detached once Freebsd has started.
PC-BSD is perhaps an option, but I expect to run into a similar problem with it.
Thank you for your time.