Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 pfgshield-freebsd@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

--- Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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