Re: bootloaders
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 22, 2015
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ChrisB,
Thank you for doing your job as a fair and impartial moderator. I want you yo know that there is at least one person out here who appreciates all of your hard work as well.
M$ OSes will NOT refuse to give you a dual boot option,
I don't do this often enough to know. For the sake of argument, I'll concede this point for the time being.
and do NOT refuse to give you a dual boot option with Linux/GNU when Windows is installed out of the box.
Really? So if I shipped ryanj my old laptop, running with only Debian Linux/GNU installed, and ryanj wanted to install some version of windoze on it, he could boot back into Debian immediately after the installation is finished? And this is without EasyBCD? (Without having to boot via a CDROM or USB disk or anything aside from the builtin hard disk, I mean.)
I certainly want this to be true, but the sources I found online suggest that it isn't.
Linuxes are generally NOT installed out of the box,
Depends on the market. This is more common, e.g. for Enterprise servers.
because only a few actually buy Linuxes.
Conceded.
Mostly they download or get a free CD. There are a few who do bu Rethat commercial version and some others, but these are a very small minority.
Conceded. Again, it is more common in certain markets - but then one is also buying a long term support contract, so the price isn't for the software alone.
EasyBCD is a MORE COMFORTABLE AND EASY way of rearranging the boot sequence. For many people (like me) who are knowledgeable about boot.ini, it is a simple matter of loading it under Wordpad and changing the sequence.
Hmm. I looked EasyBCD up on wikipedia, and it says there that EasyBCD uses neoGrub to boot into a Linux kernel. This is more than just rearranging boot.ini
Somehow I doubt that M$ is shipping a GPL'd bootloader with every edition of windoze...
