Robert Lewis wrote:
> I was out having lunch with a computer consultant
> friend and he said that MS twisted the arms of
> manufactures to put a bit in their bios so that only
> VISTA would be recognized.  He said on the net
> you can find patches where you d/l the current bios
> apply the patch which manipulates 1-bit in the bios
> that then allows it to recognize and deal with Linux
> installation.  I have no further detail and leave it as
> an exercise for you to do more sniffing.

This sounds like so much hooey! I think he (and/or you) are getting
confused with the bios hacks to work around VISTA activation. There
is simply no way I can believe there is a BIOS that forces you to
install VISTA.

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