MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

[Thomas Sparrevohn]

On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
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> --- Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn at btinternet.com> ha scritto:
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> > 
> > 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? In my case Vista Premium came preinstalled, there was also a
> FAT partition (with diagnostic stuff) and an NTFS for rescue purposes.
> 

No - The originally came with XP - I nuked that and installed FreeBSD - However 
I did nuke the XP totally before upgrading to Vista - It does overwrite the FreeBSD
MBR  - I just rebooted using a CD and added the mbr again

> Of course getting the new computer without Vista was not really an option :(,
> but MS went too far this time, they removed postcript type1 font support and
> they crippled OpenGL enough that major CAD packages don't work easily or have
> something like 85% performance penalty. 
> 
>     Pedro.
> 
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