Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:55:11 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader Message-ID: <200706280955.11311.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <46831822.4090600@u.washington.edu> References: <722528.14010.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <46831822.4090600@u.washington.edu>
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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
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