On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 05 November 2006 23:57, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > So, it seems we should plan and implement denial of the resizing for
> > Vista, asap. This is not so bad, because Vista started to include a
> > non-destructive resizer.
>
> Well, it is a pity that we will no longer be able to resize partitions
> from within the Debian installer. However, I guess that this will be a
> temporary denial until someone has figured out what would need to be
> changed to make the Vista boot working again.
Yes. Microsoft could, well, should answer this, unless they fix or
already fixed their boot process.
> > Frans, how do you detect Vista? My idea is to check for the
> > transactional directory. However this won't be enabled by default, so
> > it may not exist at all.
>
> We currently check for the presence two files:
> /bootmgr and /Boot/BCD
I'm afraid this is not ok for data partitions, which seemingly also have the
same problem. I suppose data partitions don't have the above two files, do
they?
Regards,
Szaka
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