From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 09:21:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB9E16A46D for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: from smtp804.mail.ird.yahoo.com (smtp804.mail.ird.yahoo.com [217.146.188.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C771B13C45A for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: (qmail 4442 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2007 08:55:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=btinternet.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=Qd7lCXvscBmNeoYtUqfgHXyBAZ3SXNxW6yGk1jjsTKFxoG5JVNzHx+75rlYLHrBjNqTfo8pb8xS5++8QILhLkCgifI8hCSNc29xLu5klLdrSePFYwIXSOXLQtnZko4f0omvyKbxOGySJGFcDLWl8i6FtXfpM9zWdOWHRKlPfinY= ; Received: from unknown (HELO w2fzz0vc03.aah-go-on.com) (thomas.sparrevohn@btinternet.com@81.156.175.229 with login) by smtp804.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jun 2007 08:55:13 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: SPCqPDQVM1nmEgkJhPma75FqWeIZ0GWOajzousmnEQaxTsqjuTRWlzvo4EsoDmlv.TROz7Oldw-- From: Thomas Sparrevohn To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:55:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <722528.14010.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <46831822.4090600@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46831822.4090600@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706280955.11311.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper , pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:21:55 -0000 On Thursday 28 June 2007 03:08:34 Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and without having to do anything special - That is on CURRENT