Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:05:33 -0500
Giff Hammar <ghammar@sv-phoenix.com> wrote:
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> There is an extended recovery console for Windoze that does completely
> hijack the boot process. I had installed it on my IBM notebook and it
> prevented me from booting to anything other than the HDD. It was so bad
> that it showed the alternate boot menu, allowed you to select the
> alternate boot device and then booted from the HDD anyway. Five months
> ago, I bought a Presario CQ60 (from Newegg.com) and I have installed
> Debian and Ubuntu on it several times w/o problems. It sounds like the
> reseller has added some M$ extensions to be "helpful."
I can't argue with your empirical experience, but I don't see how this
could be. The BIOS boot controls should be active before any part of
Windows gets loaded. Are the companies actually "Windowizing" the BIOS
to prevent booting from anything but the HDD?!
Celejar
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