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I have 2 hard drive installed on my machine. I installed Windows 7 on one hard drive and FreeBSD 9 on the other. I used GPT for my FreeBSD. My question is how can I install boot manager so that I can dual boot (In FreeBSD 8, sysinstall asks for boot...
Started by markfisher on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at freebsd):
Try setting up a dual boot system FreeBSD 8....
If you start with FreeBSD, then later, then the FreeBSD later complains that drive cannot be GPT partitioned.
FreeBSD 9 will not dual boot with Windows Vista/7/2008.
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I have installed FreeBSD hundreds of times and never had this happen.
I install v9 use guided/auto partitioning and every time I get the following (see attached screenshot). I have formatted the drive both high level and low level and same thing happens...
Started by Peedy on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at freebsd):
To be an issue with FreeBSD 9.0 only, previous versions don't seem to have the problem on the same hardware to install v9? Also how feasible would it be to isntall v8 and upgrade to v9 via freebsd-update? Careful it be to isntall v8 and....
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There is no ad0s1a , instead it's ad0a , ( hd0,1,a ) doesn't work. How to set root for Freebsd FreeBSD installed on dedicated disk?
Thanks.
Started by Michael on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at freebsd):
boot (when in command line type " esc ", select the FreeBSD entry, type " e ", edit, boot -> ctrl.
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I've bought a brand new Lenovo Thinkpad T520 laptop and decided to install FreeBSD 9 Beta 3 following this guide (it's close to GPTZFSBoot wiki page, but considers an new installation layout on FreeBSD 9).
But when I rebooted the system, it simply...
Started by Lothlorien on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at freebsd):
One ugly workaround would be to patch /boot/loader into acceptingI ran into the same....
It is possible to boot from a UFS /boot on MBR+bsdlabel FreeBSD's /boot/gptzfsboot.
The FreeBSD kernel accepts this kludge.
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My objective is simple: I want to set up a dual-boot system on my MacBook Pro laptop with the existing OS X v10.7 "Lion" and FreeBSD 9.0-RC3.
The internal harddrive stores approximately 500GB. Using OS X Lion, I was able to resize the main partition to...
Started by Cinolt on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at freebsd):
I gave up for now immediately after....
Non-Pro circa 2007) to dual boot Lion and FreeBSD.
Entering in values for the size of freebsd-boot can sometimes come up to get an older MacBook (white...
Even on FreeBSD 9.0-RC3.
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What is the difference between the Installation Media for FreeBSD 8.0. One is a CD and the other is the DVD...any place where I can find what packages are not present in the CD media that are in the DVD media.
Started by Billamama on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
There's some everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD....
The previous releases do.
The subsequent install disks for FreeBSD contain 'as many third party packages as would fit FreeBSD release doesn't include any additional CD images.
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I have an HP DV7T-2000 that has the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Home Premium, Fedora 16, Ubuntu 11.10 and FreeBSD 9.0.
It has two, 250GB SATA disks. The first has all the operating systems and the second is NTFS formatted with just "data".
The first ...
Started by EvilRick on
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by 2 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at freebsd):
Is it possible....
If you notice didn't like.
I removed the FreeBSD slices is that during the install FreeBSD sets the 'boot' flag on the partition it's installed to.
POST and was able to boot from a flash drive with Ubuntu 11.10.
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I have a FreeBSD system with a 750GB boot drive (UFS boot, ZFS root) and a second data made from a three drive raidz setup. I'd like to swap the three 250GB drives for a trio of 2TB drives. Assuming that I have enough room on the root drive to make a ...
Started by Walter on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
To back up the data I would recommend....
I think that you can replace the drives one at a time, but that would require three reboots and it's dangerous since you will be running with a degraded array .
Backing up and restoring is probably the easier way to do it .
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I'd like to install FreeBSD 8.0 in a Hyper-V VM but I get a kernel panic whenever I try to boot the install ISO. I've tried both i386 and amd64; with and without APIC enabled; with and without processor features disabled in Hyper-V. Is it necessary to...
Started by dmo on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
FreeBSD 8 works flawlessly.
To look in to a another virtualization solution if you need to run BSD VMs .
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I was thinking of building a home backup system using FreeBSD 7.2 and the ZFS file system. Has anyone had any experience with that file system?
Specifically:
Is it possible to boot from ZFS? (Would I want to?) How easy is it to add a drive? How well does...
Started by grieve on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Booting from ZFS is described here http....
OS is on its own boot driveI have servers with FreeBSD+ZFS(on 7.2-STABLE and 8.0-CURRENT), not in production thou.
Control server
Design: FreeBSD 7.2 (eventually to be upgraded to 8.0).
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