This message was posted on Usenet, NOT JLAforums, & on Wed, 23 Aug 2006
01:37:12 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> Oliver Wong wrote:
>
>
>> "miroco" <whodie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:uoadnWLPcIcCxHbZnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:10:27 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:39:41 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> | Vista will continue to
>>>>>>> | wipe your master boot record on install. And so begins "The case
>>>>>>> | against installing Windows Vista (volume 658, 943)".
>> [...]
>>>> Microsoft has no responsibility to maintain the proper boot sector for
>>>> other OS's. Period.
>>>>
>>>>> Erasing the MBR is the same as erasing a file (purging a pointer to
>>>>> it), The
>>>>> average computer user will never be able to recover it.
>>>>
>>>> Yet you suppose they'll be able to decide to keep their old boot
>>>> loader, and configure it to boot windows as well?
>>>>
>>>> Right.
>>>
>>> If windows is going to be a full featured OS then it should include a
>>> good bootloader and offer the option of being configured to boot any
>>> other OS's that the user might have on the system.Anything less is
>>> uncivilised.
>>
>> I think you need to "know of" the other OS to write a bootloader for
>> it.
>> I.e. AFAIK, there's no generic way to "detect" OSes in general, and
>> configure the bootloader for them. So GRUB or LILO have some hard-coded
>> support in them somewhere for various flavours of Windows. Support was
>> added partly because the developers are nice people and partly because
>> given the marketshare, they *have* to support Windows or be dismissed by
>> most users.
>>
>>
> You should actually read how grub "supports" other OS before writing such
> drivel
>
>> Meanwhile, Microsoft's bootloader doesn't have any support hardcoded
>> into it for any operating system other than its own. This is partly
>> because they aren't so nice, and partly because given the marketshare,
>> it makes business sense to pretend nothing else exists.
>>
>> - Oliver
>
> See above
He's digging himself in deeper...
--
I used to like a good joke.
What happened?
I thought there was a better way, so I
stopped using Windows & switched to linux.
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