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Re: boot loader/ installer



On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:17:46AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:27:08PM -0400, Ryan Jones wrote:
> > I recently tried to install Debian on my system but while i was installing
> > it I ran across some problems unrelated to your program and had to do a
> > system restore before i was able to install Linux.
> 
> what method were you using to install? It sounds like you were using
> www.goodbye-microsoft.{org,com}
> 
> > Now when i start up i am
> > given the option to start windows or the installer. But I am unable to
> > use the installer because system restore has gotten rid of the file nor have
> > i found a way to get rid of it.  I am using Windows Vista on a HP pavilion
> > tx1000 tablet notebook with an amd64 processor.
> 
> so do you want to install debian or not? if you do, then you need to
> re-download the installer file. If not, you merely need to clean up
> your boot loader. I can't remember exactly what the file is called,
> but there is a file windows uses for booting multiple OS's and you
> merely have to delete the entries for the debian installer. 
> 
> A

boot.ini and it's located in the root of the first partition.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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