Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Thomas Sparrevohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Thomas Sparrevohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and without having to do anything special -

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 03:08:34 Garrett Cooper wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Ivan Voras wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. vista doesn't like: - bootloaders different than the one used by

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:33:39 Julian H. Stacey wrote: I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and without having to do anything special - That is on CURRENT ruinning: No such word ruining: Wrecking, destroying running: Working acceptably

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Thomas Sparrevohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Thomas Sparrevohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-27 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
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

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-27 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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