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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
