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FreeBSD and Linux shared partitions
Which directories, and how, can I share between FreeBSD and Linux? In particular, how can I deduplicate respectively /usr/home and /home?
I guess directly sharing a partition between both systems ...
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How do you dual boot Debian and FreeBSD using GRUB2?
I've been trying to install FreeBSD alongside my Debian installation in a single partition. All examples readily present on the Internet had shortcomings:
Some required chainloading the FreeBSD ...
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FreeBSD and Windows show different times
In a dual-boot system, I usually use FreeBSD 9 but when I boot to Windows 7 my system time in both OS automatically change and show incorrect time. What's the problem and How can I solve it?
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How to autoboot boot0?
How can automatically boot FreeBSD in boot0 and, when needed, manually load win by pressing a shortcut button?
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FreeBSD 9 and Windows 7 Dual Boot
I have two hard drives installed on my machine. I installed Windows 7 on one hard drive and FreeBSD 9 on the other. I used GPT for FreeBSD. My question is: how can I install a boot manager so that I ...
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FreeBSD 8.1 on MacBook 5,2
I've been trying to dual-boot FreeBSD 8.1 with Mac OS X on my MacBook (5,2), but am having trouble trying to get the live cd to boot.
I reach the FreeBSD Boot Loader Screen with the options for boot, ...
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Multibooting FreeBSD and other Linux distros
Long story short: Have one laptop, need to multiboot FreeBSD/OpenBSD as well as a number of Linux distros.
Which one do you think should go first? FreeBSD offers a bootMgr, but I'm not sure how it ...
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FreeNAS grub2 booting ISO
I've got usb-keys setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I wouldn't mind adding FreeNAS, and there's a doc with samples to add to grub.cfg
menuentry "FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64" {
insmod ufs2
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How do I add PC BSD / FreeBSD to Grub 2 boot loader?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed as my primary operating system, and I installed PC BSD in a different partition: /dev/sda4 without installing it's boot loader. I figured out that I need to edit ...
