MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

[Garrett Cooper]

pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com 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:
> - 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.
>   
Their excuse is probably to keep (some of the less intelligent) users 
out there from booting using their own media or alternate means. M$ 
really must have something important in their bootloader...
-Garrett