FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
 > Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc
 > image and went off to reinstall FreeBSD (don't ask why). OK, it worked
 > whatsoever. But as it turns out, I wasn't able to boot my Windows XP
 > installation anymore. The system just froze when I tried booting my
 > Windows XP slice. First I thought that the installation damaged the
 > other partitions (someone added buggy code in sysinstall lately?). At
 > that point I didn't dare to boot anything on the disk. I decided to
 > give a try to Hiren's Boot CD, which has loads of warezed
 > slicing/partitioning, recovery and backup tools, and also a loadable
 > Mini Windows XP. I hoped I would be able to find out what happened.
 >
 > But guess what? Neither of the Boot CD tools were able to start up,
 > not even the Mini Windows XP! They all froze just like my Windows XP.
 > But that's just weird. On a whim, I disabled my disk drive in the BIOS
 > settings. And guess what? Both the Mini Windows XP and the tools were
 > able to start because of that. I was able to read the
 > slices/partitions with them, and noticed that all my files on the
 > FAT32 and NTFS slices were intact.
[...]
 > sysinstall asked something new when I installed 8.0, something like
 > "It is safe to use a disk geometry of 123/45/6789 on modern
 > computers... Would you like to use this disk geometry?", I chose
 > "Yes". Safe my ass. I guess my computer doesn't fit in sysinstall's
 > definition of "modern".

Reinstalling FreeBSD and chosing "No" seems to have revived the Windows 
partition.