MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

[Tim Clewlow]

--- Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> > 
> > --- Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn at btinternet.com> ha scritto:
> > ...
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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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Hi, this may not be the correct place to ask - but it is related. Has anyone
been able to get Vista running on qemu?

Cheers, Tim.


       
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