Robert Lewis wrote:
I was out having lunch with a computer consultant friend and he said that MS twisted the arms of manufactures to put a bit in their bios so that only VISTA would be recognized. He said on the net you can find patches where you d/l the current bios apply the patch which manipulates 1-bit in the bios that then allows it to recognize and deal with Linux installation. I have no further detail and leave it as an exercise for you to do more sniffing.
This sounds like so much hooey! I think he (and/or you) are getting confused with the bios hacks to work around VISTA activation. There is simply no way I can believe there is a BIOS that forces you to install VISTA. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org