From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 17:50:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF34A106566B for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:50:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f209.google.com (mail-fx0-f209.google.com [209.85.220.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3548FC15 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so2843882fxm.13 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:50:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=q7B4d7r01VjhslUvsmGPJc0DhULiW4alAmE6DFF061s=; b=x5qY6TYI035gq4+LnZr64/kCdm63dq53XXD3cNEPmEtIRLOwYCw3NbyxsHlVxeQo70 XbtPIc4gy8dY32fcAfL+w46K39GO1OM3GqhZhP1ELQfrggUirsnkHeKez2zdOotzSB9F vsQ6yAC7ge2QN2mr09MEvVmNhFUd5HiVAULpk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vcp/TJm1+bW38byGWxvdRsRF58YsoL1xbA7SoUuo9NAQA0znlS1q4RdUrGSdQznIYT B4IkkN6DFabbfAVCd5vmTgoYbShAqKNv1AZWg2S3+0+eJVNhhJNeVdZ1ZWrCCREcTzuy bFPOotCIwNMEZPLMS5bNFkjdzQmnsOCHTd/qs= Received: by 10.223.5.5 with SMTP id 5mr5784940fat.80.1270489836847; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [157.181.97.113] (quark.teteny.elte.hu [157.181.97.113]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm8125433fxm.1.2010.04.05.10.50.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BBA3264.5050702@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:56:36 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:50:38 -0000 deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc > image and went off to reinstall FreeBSD (don't ask why). OK, it worked > whatsoever. But as it turns out, I wasn't able to boot my Windows XP > installation anymore. The system just froze when I tried booting my > Windows XP slice. First I thought that the installation damaged the > other partitions (someone added buggy code in sysinstall lately?). At > that point I didn't dare to boot anything on the disk. I decided to > give a try to Hiren's Boot CD, which has loads of warezed > slicing/partitioning, recovery and backup tools, and also a loadable > Mini Windows XP. I hoped I would be able to find out what happened. > > But guess what? Neither of the Boot CD tools were able to start up, > not even the Mini Windows XP! They all froze just like my Windows XP. > But that's just weird. On a whim, I disabled my disk drive in the BIOS > settings. And guess what? Both the Mini Windows XP and the tools were > able to start because of that. I was able to read the > slices/partitions with them, and noticed that all my files on the > FAT32 and NTFS slices were intact. [...] > sysinstall asked something new when I installed 8.0, something like > "It is safe to use a disk geometry of 123/45/6789 on modern > computers... Would you like to use this disk geometry?", I chose > "Yes". Safe my ass. I guess my computer doesn't fit in sysinstall's > definition of "modern". Reinstalling FreeBSD and chosing "No" seems to have revived the Windows partition.