Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:08:34 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader Message-ID: <46831822.4090600@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <722528.14010.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <722528.14010.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi; > > FWIW, if you just got your new computer with Windows Vista installed and were > hoping to dual boot FreeBSD on it, let me tell you that FreeBSD's bootloader > will screw things up. > > Microsoft basically declared the war on alternative OSs so it seems vista > doesn't like: > - bootloaders different than the one used by Vista. > - Making a non Vista partition active. > > I did what I used to do with XP: I resized the Windows partition with a liveCD > and QTparted, Installed FreeBSD with booteasy.. and surprise... Windows Vista > won't run again. > > I then rescued the Vista installation with the install CD (good thing they > included that this time, and not only the preinstalled OS!), and looked on the > -net for something called EasyBCD, which looks like it will solve the problem > by reconfiguring the Vista bootloader. > > cheers, > > Pedro. > Their excuse is probably to keep (some of the less intelligent) users out there from booting using their own media or alternate means. M$ really must have something important in their bootloader... -Garrett
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