Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 05:45:51PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian" <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:38:11 PM
> Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time
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> > 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?
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> > I hope that this is the place to ask; or is there an E-list full of grub experts?
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> > 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.
> Good grief. I just wrote that I am now logged in to a working jessie.
> So I can run any kind of apt-get, aptitude, etc.
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> So I repeat: apt-cache search grub gives me lots of grub files to install.
> Do I want to install a different grub? I remember that previously I had lots
> of files in /boot/grub/ . Now I have just a few, which I gave to you and the
> List in my previous post.
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> Again: are there people with a working dual boot system? I'd like a response
> from one of them(if they exist here) letting me know how it works, and also:
> what is the content of their /boot/grub/ directory.
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> Again: TIA.
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> Alan McConnell
If you install Debian, then install Windows - you normally overwrite the GRUB entries and MBR.
If you isntall the other way round, you normally find that Debian will find the Windows partition and install GRUB correctly.
In case of only having Windows come up: boot from media, run rescue - which looks like an insstall but isn't quite - work through
to the end and you have an option to reinstall GRUB.
If you're already _in_ a working Jessie - run os-prober and update-grub as root
This is by way of becoming an FAQ - and is in the installation instructions / release notes as Chapter 8, I think.
apt-get install debian-handbook and read up on this?
All the very best,
Andy C
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