Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 11/04/14 14:55, Christian Baer wrote:
> Good evening, everyone!
>
> A few days ago I bought myself a new computer - at long last! :-) I have been
> working with FreeBSD for quite a while now, but only ever on servers, never on
> a desktop-computer or a workstation. This time I took special care to make
> sure FreeBSD would run on all the hardware. Only catch: The case has no room
> for a FreeBSD badge. :-)
>
> I guess I was a little over-enthusiastic and installed FreeBSD right away. As
> you can see, I managed to get it running, including X, nvdidia-driver and
> sound. ;-)
>
> At times, I still like gaming and although I do not spend most of my computer
> time doing that, I did leave some room on my SSD for Windows. To be exact, I
> created three primary partitions (MBR style, Win7 is a pain with UEFI), one
> 100MB, one ~120GB (these two are for Windows) and one ~118GB for FreeBSD.
>
> My problem is that should I install Windows now, FreeBSD won't boot anymore,
> because Windows will replace the boot loader. If there is any documentation
> about using FreeBSD and Windows on one machine, it usually assumes that
> Windows was installed first.
>
> Does anybody know of some documentation or howto to install these two OSs the
> other way around? As you can imagine, I don't really fancy the idea of
> starting from scratch here.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
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Run winders as a VM ? $0.02, no more, no less .....


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