Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:40:20 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader Message-ID: <200706281040.l5SAeKhn095833@fire.js.berklix.net> 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: ... Actually, NetBSD can criple FreeBSD MBR too ! Detail http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#netbsd (I tried Net in desperation as FreeBSD-6.2 useless w. 16 bit pcmcia & PLIP) (I reported MBR to users@netbsd.org & got just 1 response, not a solution). So many OS' cripple other OS's MBR - Sigh ! -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com HTML mail unseen. Ihr Rauch=mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.
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