Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
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From: "Brian" <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 1:32:54 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 11:13:45 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Addendum: during my Jessie install, the install program commented at one point:
> "There doesn't seem to be any other OS on your system". Jeez!! I hope some
> maintainer reads this complaint and Debian works hard to make sure that the
What is the exact name and version of this OS which is not found?
<LOL> Windows 10. If there is a more exact name, I don't know it.
> operation of installing a second OS(Linux) on a Windoze box is as easy and
> error-proof as it is possible to make it.
1. As a user do
dpkg -l | grep grub
Please post the output of this command.
2. Suppose there are four packages listed. As root do
apt-get --reinstall install <package_name>
for each package
<package_name> is in the second column of the 'dpkg -l' output.
So, for example
apt-get --reinstall install grub-common
apt-get --reinstall install grub-pc
apt-get --reinstall install grub-pc-bin
apt-get --reinstall install grub2-common
is what I would do on my machine. For the grub-pc reinstall please post
the lines which begin "Found ....." in the output.
3. As root run the command
os-prober
and post its output.
Why? why all this? What good will it do? to anyone? To do this I'd have
to get out of this URL(mail.his.com), shut down my Windoze, reboot to Jessie,
copy the output you are requesting to a piece of paper, and then get back here.(*)
May I ask: are you the Debian installation maintainer? if you are, I'd be
happy to work with you.
(*) Many years ago, when I ran a dual boot machine of Linux and MS-DOS, I used to be
able to mount the MS-DOS partition from my Linux system, and copy file to and from it.
I'm going to try that, when next I (re)boot into Jessie.
Best wishes,
Alan
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