Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub
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 :-(
> The install went fairly smoothly until it set up Grub.
You mean Squeeze or Wheezy netinstall?
> 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? :-?
> 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,
--
Camaleón
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