Ivan Voras wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
vista doesn't like:
>> - bootloaders different than the one used by Vista.
>> - Making a non Vista partition active.
I can confirm this - messing with the boot sector will make Vista
unbootable, but it can be repaired with the installer (of course, you
lose FreeBSD at that point). It seems Vista uses registry or some
other binary format to store boot info (as opposed to WinXP which
uses a text file...) and it protects the boot loader for "DRM"
reasons.
This has been SOP at Microsoft for almost a decade. If you want to
dual-boot Windows, the solution is to use the established methods for
adding additional boot options to the built-in Windows boot-loader. For
Vista, this means using the BCDEdit command-line tool to manipulate the
Boot Configuration Data in the system registry rather than Notepad to
edit boot.ini.
BCDEdit and its options are detailed on MSDN:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468636.aspx
A slightly more useful discussion of BCDedit on bsdforums.org:
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48405
It specifies Linux, but this is a tutorial for adding a non-Windows boot
option to the Vista Boot Manager:
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/10/13/Using-Vista_2700_s-Boot-Manager-to-Boot-Linux-and-Dual-Booting-with-BitLocker-Protection-with-TPM-Support.aspx
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Darren Pilgrim
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