FreeBSD & WINDOWS VISTA

Posted by Benjamin Close on November 7, 2008 under FreeBSD | 11 Comments to Read

Dual Booting Windows Vista & FreeBSD / Linux / Some other OS

The Problem

After installing Windows Vista Enterprise Edition, I very quickly wanted to get back to FreeBSD. As per previous versions of Windows, Vista does a great job of overwriting the Master boot record (MBR). Unlike previous versions of windows, you cannot just install a different boot loader in the MBR – so I found out the hard way. (It used to be sooo easy fdisk /mbr would fix any broken boot sectors, then just install your favourite boot loader). Read more of this article »