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Acronis OS Selector ?? Looking for information

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Can anyone tell me if OSS understands / supports FreeBSD as an OS? I have 4 slices, (DOS style
partitons), on a Laptop's internal HD. It's a Intel Core 2 Duo (amd64 arch) with 4gb ram and
nVidia GeForce 9600M GT (512mb vram), screen is 1680x1050 native resolution.

If is understand the boot process correctly, the BIOS loads and transfers control
to a selected hard drive MBR, its MBR then transfers control to some slices/partitions
boot record and that then loads the OS.

Slices:

1) Win/XP, 2) FreeBSD, 3) Win7RC, 4) Acronis Secure Zone

Currently True Image's recovery (f11 to run standalone TI from secure zone) is in the boot block,
if it times out, it boots to Win7's boot manager, which offers WinXP and Win7 as boot
choices. I have 2 USB HDs that are normally connected to root ports, (the BIOS offers
them as boot choices).

Ideally, I'd like to have these for choices for OS Selector,
(WinXP, FreeBSD, Win7, TI Standalone restore).
There is enough room in the secure zone's partition to split it into a new
fat16 to hold the OS Selector's data files, (as the rest of the disk is non-fat,
(NTFS x 2 and FreeBSD)).

I also need to find out what Acronis is asking for it and where to download a current version?
The copy I have asks for a serial number when run standalone from the bootable media cd.

Thanks

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Hello David Zabriskie,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0

Yes, OS selector does support FreeBSD systems, please check Chapter 8.1 of this User's Guide.

Ideally, I'd like to have these for choices for OS Selector,
(WinXP, FreeBSD, Win7, TI Standalone restore).

Unfortunately, current build of our program does not support Windows 7. So you won't be able to detect it by means of OS Selector. Also, it's not possible to add Acronis True Image CD to boot list (however, there's an option to load from CD).

Thank you.