Vista finally rears its ugly head for me

[DontSayBanana]

BTW, never mind on the bi-hourly shutdowns. I just found the relevant article and realized it was talking about March 2010, not March 2009- I'm already registered to receive a copy of 7 at launch in October, so I don't think I'm going to have a problem with that.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

And for all you Linux-heads, I have had more boot problems with Linux distros than I ever did with Windows-- and the Windows problems were easier to fix.  Don't get me wrong, I love me some Ubuntu, but Linux is not always more reliable than Windows.

I'm curious as to what your issue is.  I haven't had startup issues with Linux in several years, unless I caused them by screwing around with shit.

[DontSayBanana]

I'm curious as to what your issue is.  I haven't had startup issues with Linux in several years, unless I caused them by screwing around with shit.

Me too. I've had Xandros since late 2005 and it's never once given me a problem. Derspiess, did you go for vanilla installs or did you try to customize them?

Also, were you dual-booting or flying solo? As I understand it, the LILO bootloader is pretty fragile and has chronic problems with dismounting OSes.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

the LILO bootloader

:projectilevomit:

The holdout distros need to do the community a favor and switch to Grub, except on the few platforms where LILO is absolutely necessary.

[DontSayBanana]

:projectilevomit:

The holdout distros need to do the community a favor and switch to Grub, except on the few platforms where LILO is absolutely necessary.

Tell me about it- and yet, I'm always seeing more posts by LILO fanboiz than GRUB afficionados. My version of Xandros uses a custom bootloader (possibly derived from GRUB) that thankfully has proven pretty sturdy.