Issues with Bootloader & Vista

[Kris Moore]

Hey guys,

We've released our 1.4 BETA of PC-BSD this week, and one of the issues
which has come up is the broken support for dual-booting with a Vista
system. Apparently the FreeBSD boot loader messes up some of Vista's
boot process. Here's what one of our users tracked it down to:

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If a user wises to re size the Vista partition then dual boot the user
maybe surprised to find Vista will fail to boot from the BSD boot loader
with the following error message:

"The file /Windows/system32/winload.exe can not be found or is corrupt."

This is due to the BSD boot loader overwriting a UUID in the MBR the
Vista OS uses to boot for some reason as it was not in the Beta or the RC.
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Is this a known issue, or something we may have fixed in 6-Stable soon?
If so it would be great if I could find a fix before we release a final
version down the road.





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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
http://www.pcbsd.com