Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

pfgshield-freebsd@xxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxx & 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
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