[aclug-L] Re: Has anybody fought M$ --ME for control to install linux dual boot?

[Andrew Peck <apeck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I hear of stuff like this only one word comes to mind...   FORMAT!

being destructive is so much fun sometimes.


On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > I just bought a new HP pav and It came with a ton of software and ME 
> > preinstalled.  I tried my typical of fips'n the hard drive and sliding 
> > linux right in beside it. AS soon as stuff starts, ME bust in and stops 
> > stuff!  From me, I cannot go to dos real mode, as it is no longer allowed.  
> > It seems as though microsoft has designed this program to counter dual boot 
> > systems and it is annoying me.  I am thinking of putting in an old 2gig 
> > hard drive and booting off of a diskette to the other drive!
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> 
> I heard that it will not only not exist with linload (no dos mode), but it
> will not exist with LILO. The reason is that it thinks (according to what
> this person said M$ said) that the mbr is "damaged", and overwrites it. I
> think they had more sinister objectives (eg. no more dual booting), but LILO,
> linload, etc WILL NOT dual boot with Linux on the same drive. Another case of
> M$ anti-competitive actions.
> 
> James L.
> 
> ps. the floppy should work. 
> 
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