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Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

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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