On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:13:01 -0200, 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

You'll have to video that one. ;-)

Jim

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