Re: Dual boot problems

On 2/13/07, Questions <questions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,


This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop
came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I
require,
removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the
Vista/Microsoft flames at the door)

When I install FreeBSD/i386, I can then install grub (instead of
FreeBSD's bootloader) and I can have grub "chainload" the Vista
bootloader. All works fine.

However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's
architecture
is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug into why, but I'm
confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub becomes a non-option. Gag
has the same limitation of being i386 only.


to make sure i understand this correctly, you can install FreeBSD
(assuming 6.1-RELEASE)/amd64 on your system but am having problems
compiling grub in this environment from the ports tree?

it looks like grub may only build correctly on i386 systems, but you
may be able to define your cpu as a 32bit arch in /etc/make.conf while
trying to build grub to see if that works. i've never had to do this
though, but it's worth a shot.

-pete


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Pete Wright
www.nycbug.org
NYC's *BSD User Group
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Thanks for the fast reply, Pete.

It's actually 6.2-RELEASE/amd64, and I have tried compiling grub with the
pentium3, and pentium4 CPUTYPE's in /etc/make.conf, to no avail. Sadly,
it seems as though vista has code in the MBR now, that seems to be part of
the bitlocker stuff. FreeBSD's standard bootloader interferes with it,
causing Vista to give a error message about files being corrupted.
Maybe there is a "simple" (to the MBR guru types) that could be
implemented into the fbsd bootloader.

-Jeff Palmer


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