On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:16:47 -0400, Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
[SNIP]
Also, the bigger problem is that the hardware will look completely
different to windows, so you'll almost certainly be forced to
activate again, then you'd probably never be able to dual boot.
Historically, the workaround for that has been to switch the PCI/ACPI
libraries in Windows to the generic ones (and away from the chip-set
specific ones). Then you (re)activate that configuration and if few
enough "things" (pieces of HW) are changed the activation process should
not get (re)triggered.
IIRC, there used to be a "no more than two changes between boots or the
activation needs to be redone" rule, but that could have changed.
Keeping in mind that a memory size change beyond a certain percentage
would count as a "thing changed", as does a new graphics adapter, etc,
etc.
// Thomas