On Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 02:09:47 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote: > Comments/Problems: This machine started with Win7 installation occupying > the entire disk. I resized the windows partition to 1/2 of the disk, > and installed wheezy into the new partitions [ /boot and / plus swap ], > which I created using manual partitioning in the installer. > When we got to the install GRUB phase, I see this message: > "[!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk > It seems that this new installation is the only operating system on this > computer. If so, it should be safe to install the GRUB boot loader to > the master boot record of your first hard drive."
Bug#650819 maybe. Should be fixed in beta-4. > This is not what I want -- I want to set this up as dual-boot, win7/wheezy. > I said no to installing GRUB, and finished the install with no boot loader > changes. This should be a simple case for the installer to get right. > The manual for beta D-I doesn't steer me to any way to solve this, other > than to see the GRUB manual. Did you get that advice from section 6.3.6.1? I'd agree it is less helpful than intended. > So now I'm trying to become enough of a GRUB > expert to be able to create a manual boot loader configuration that will > maybe result in a working dual boot. It's a pity you declined to install GRUB. At least you should have got a bootable system from which to attempt to get the missing entry into the GRUB menu. You could consider a reinstall. Then boot into the new system and run update-grub as root. Alternatively, you could boot the netinst ISO in Rescue mode. From there you can reinstall GRUB and get a shell to use 'update-grub'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
