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I am currently attempting to install FreeBSD 9.0 RC onto a machine I am sharing Windows 7 with at the moment. The installation goes without a problem until it gets to the part where the system reboots and loads the operating system.
The FreeBSD installation did not install a bootloader for my OS so I could select if I wanted to boot to FreeBSD or Windows. The machine continues to load Windows 7 without even offering which OS I want to load like my FreeBSD install.
How do I go about installing a suitable bootloader to handle startups for Windows 7 and FreeBSD from the DVD-ROM install media?
I tried using boot0cfg with boot0cfg -B as listed from the manpages and FreeBSD online guidebook but the program refused to write the bootloader to the MBR.
I have success with GRUB2 with Linux installs of Ubuntu and other UNIX variants like OpenIndiana, but I could not find it on the install media, or at least find out if it even installed. Any tips or suggestions on what to do at this point?
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