Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Why a "learning experience"?
'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/
That did not sound reassuring :-(
Why? Although the trigger for moving to Linux was annoyance
with Gates & Co., my methodology is *STRONGLY* motivated my
learning the guts of Linux. Being retired means I have time
in abundance.
The install went fairly smoothly until it set up Grub.
You mean Squeeze or Wheezy netinstall?
Version 6.0.4 Without double checking I believe that's
"Squeeze".
That caused me to notice that there was no intuitively
obvious way to determine what version is running. I had to
look at the file name of the iso file.
I had opted for guided install using all free space. It correctly
detected Windows and asked permission to write to boot partition. I
accepted.
After doing that, now the Windows bootloader has been replaced with
GRUB2. There's another option, though.
NOW, when system boots I have 2 choices - Debian and Debian in recovery
mode.
a. Why?
Why, what...? Because you have installed Debian, right? :-?
This was the latest of several installs. All the previous
installs had access to the Windows OS.
b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot Windows?
Ah, that.
Well, I don't know if that's supported right after the installation. If
yes, if it's supported and does not work, you can open a bug report
against the installer.
[Not sure whether I have WinXP or Vista. Bought a used Thinkpad R61
explicitly to experiment. No critical files there but having a familiar
OS would be very convenient. Worst case, I advance experiments with
Wine. I have only one must have program which depends on a Windows
environment and it is known to run well under Wine.]
Windows is still there, don't panic, is just you:
- Have replaced its NTloader (Windows boot loader) with another boot
loader (GRUB2).
- The new bootloder (GRUB2) has to detect (or you have to manually add an
entry) the available OSes in your system, which is not always an easy
task. GRUB2 has a tool for doing that automatically (by means of the "os-
prober" script) which I think is run by the installer but as anything in
this world, it can fail :-)
Greetings,
update-grub solved immediate problem.
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