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Re:DOS Ain't Done Til Lotus Won't Run? (2005) by mjg59 on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:02PM (#10432973)
This is limited to BIOS-based booting, and there isn't really a whole lot of choice there. There's no standardised mechanism for bootloader configuration in the BIOS world, so you have the choice of either:

(a) overwriting the existing MBR, or (b) knowing how to configure every single third party bootloader, or (c) not booting

In the UEFI world, the Windows installer won't overwrite any files it didn't install.

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Re:DOS Ain't Done Til Lotus Won't Run? (2005) by digi_owl on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:23PM (#10433916)
UEFI brings with it all kinds of other lovelies though.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTg

Kinda reminds me of the issues Linux has run into with ACPI, and here are some lovely emails from Torvalds regarding that:

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/acpi.html

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