Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time
On Sat 10 Sep 2016 at 11:40:28 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> > Boot your install medium - enter rescue mode - reinstall grub?
> I tried Rescue Mode. Maybe I'm not doing it right, but I got thrown into
> "Chose language", "Choose Keyboard" . . . just as if I were doing a fresh
> install. ? ? ?
You noticed what was in the top left-hand corner of the screen?
> But I don't need that. I played with the BIOS a little, and now I boot automatically
Yes, you need it - definitely. Persevere. Keep going and eventually
you'll get to a page where you can reinstall GRUB.
> into my new Jessie. I am busy installing stuff and getting stuff off of backups, etc . .
> But I'd still like to be asked, right after I turn the machine on, which OS I'd like
> to boot.
>
> My present /boot/grub/ directory contains minimal stuff:
> fonts/ , grub.cfg , grubenv , i386-pc/ , locale/ , unicode.pf2
>
> But when I run apt-cache search grub , it shows me a lot more stuff that I
> could install. So I ask again, this time from a position of being able to install
> and configure grub , how do I do it, and make it give me a good clean choice of
> OS when I turn my machine on in the morning?
>
> I hope that this is the place to ask; or is there an E-list full of grub experts?
They'll tell you to reinstall GRUB and run the command 'update-grub'
from rescue mode. You can ask about this if you are stuck when you get
rescue mode going.
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