Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:19:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Clewlow <tim1timau@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader Message-ID: <235027.40865.qm@web50302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200706282009.00938.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
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--- Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > --- Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> ha scritto:
> > ...
> >
> > >
> > > I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and
> > > without having to do anything special - That is on CURRENT
> > >
> > >
> > Hmm...
> >
> > Installation order is important, perhaps you already had FreeBSD before
> > installing Vista? In my case Vista Premium came preinstalled, there was
> also a
> > FAT partition (with diagnostic stuff) and an NTFS for rescue purposes.
> >
>
> No - The originally came with XP - I nuked that and installed FreeBSD -
> However
> I did nuke the XP totally before upgrading to Vista - It does overwrite the
> FreeBSD
> MBR - I just rebooted using a CD and added the mbr again
>
> > Of course getting the new computer without Vista was not really an option
> :(,
> > but MS went too far this time, they removed postcript type1 font support
> and
> > they crippled OpenGL enough that major CAD packages don't work easily or
> have
> > something like 85% performance penalty.
> >
> > Pedro.
> >
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Hi, this may not be the correct place to ask - but it is related. Has anyone
been able to get Vista running on qemu?
Cheers, Tim.
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