nemesis wrote:
> Jim Henderson escreveu:
>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:24:15 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>> So they can't modify
>>> the Windows boot menu to accomidate Linux. So they clobber the Windows
>>> boot sector with the GRUB boot sector.  Which, honestly, wouldn't be all
>>> *that* awful, if they actually followed the rules for booting,which is
>>> to say, boot the partition marked "active".  If they did that, you could
>>> boot back and forth between Windows and Linux without being at the
>>> console.
>>
>> Yeah, it's really kinda - well, expected, I guess - that MS behaves 
>> that way about how the system boots.  They want to be the only OS 
>> there, so they just play like they are.  They should stop doing that, 
>> maybe they will with Windows 7?
> 
> I'll eat my underwears if they do. :D

If they do what? Fix their MBR code so it boots the active partition, so 
you don't have to boot Windows to change what operating system boots if 
it by default already boots Windows?

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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