Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:34:57 -0700 From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Issues with Bootloader & Vista Message-ID: <46A4D8B1.3040706@pcbsd.com>
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Hey guys, We've released our 1.4 BETA of PC-BSD this week, and one of the issues which has come up is the broken support for dual-booting with a Vista system. Apparently the FreeBSD boot loader messes up some of Vista's boot process. Here's what one of our users tracked it down to: ....................................................................... If a user wises to re size the Vista partition then dual boot the user maybe surprised to find Vista will fail to boot from the BSD boot loader with the following error message: "The file /Windows/system32/winload.exe can not be found or is corrupt." This is due to the BSD boot loader overwriting a UUID in the MBR the Vista OS uses to boot for some reason as it was not in the Beta or the RC. ....................................................................... Is this a known issue, or something we may have fixed in 6-Stable soon? If so it would be great if I could find a fix before we release a final version down the road. -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com
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