On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:40:40 -0400 Wally Lepore <wallylep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I choose NO to the installer's question as to placing GRUB in the > MBR of the 1st drive. What are my choices as to where to install it? I > don't want to answer "NO" to the question only to advance the > installer to a dead end. I have no idea what may happen next if I > answer NO. Any ideas or suggestions please? > You have the choice of installing it in the Debian partition, or not at all. In the latter case, you will need to boot to Debian from a removable drive. This will quickly become tedious. If you install it in the Debian partition, you will need to run this bootloader from the first stage of the Windows bootloader. What it comes down to is that you need to boot the first stages of one of your operating systems and select either to continue to boot it or to boot the other. If you have Windows up to XP, it is fairly simple either way. Windows can boot other operating systems easily, though after XP it became much harder to edit the bootloader (Windows' 'Grub2 moment'). Up to and including XP, it was a matter of editing the boot.ini text file, present in the root of the Windows boot partition. Once this file includes two or more operating system entries, you will be given a small menu with a timeout and default before Windows starts. Should you decide to use Grub for the initial boot, and something goes wrong that can't be fixed, all versions of Windows can have their MBR bootloaders restored from their installation discs, or from a rescue disc made from within Windows. Whatever you decide, it is probably worth making this rescue disc, as you probably don't have the installation disc. Research how to do this and how to make the repair before you lose the Internet... -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121013091420.6dfec...@jretrading.com
