From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 15:26:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2202516A46D for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:26:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com) Received: from web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7D1F13C448 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 15434 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Jun 2007 15:00:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=nOjd7TGJVwTbIRDDiENPHwf2a32xQes7BqxcNsXMTdwM2IqvpSheVfa2buVuP7fY+RuCaaITjv7xlUkcmeEdQdtfhKUVamLr8SeKZshUCugigWJ50HJ/FwFN8OOiS/8LQZ5BITnEU3jZ15pjE1QmRly0kqpSuq55CM0RLd065bg=; X-YMail-OSG: 8dGFdEIVM1k_cMAa6s4YhgRz8_QEuy050Fu7BQ.80Qe.1.xn8aDycqC3oKCqxseA.RhPz0AZ0iusdqTsEtxgERl_05dpuexQQL3H7dBNIQ81CMT4wYy0vhP79ortSw-- Received: from [69.79.129.102] by web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:00:02 CEST Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:00:02 +0200 (CEST) From: To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <722528.14010.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:44:04 +0000 Cc: Subject: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:26:44 -0000 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 than the one used by Vista. - Making a non Vista partition active. I did what I used to do with XP: I resized the Windows partition with a liveCD and QTparted, Installed FreeBSD with booteasy.. and surprise... Windows Vista won't run again. I then rescued the Vista installation with the install CD (good thing they included that this time, and not only the preinstalled OS!), and looked on the -net for something called EasyBCD, which looks like it will solve the problem by reconfiguring the Vista bootloader. cheers, Pedro. ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html