On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 06:04:12PM -0400, songbird wrote: > > i just tried this to make sure it worked as described > and it worked so i'm not sure what you didn't do correctly. > > when your grub boot screen flashes there will be a list > of entries to select. the default if you haven't changed > anything is 0. i.e. the first item on that list. OK, I must apologize. Massive confusion here. You are telling me which of the several kernels I have that I can boot. But when I wrote "Boot Order" I was referring to being able to boot first from the flash drive, then from the DVD drive, and then, if there isn't a bootable flash drive inserted, then the BIOS will check if there is a bootable DVD inserted . . . Only if there is no bootable USB thumb drive inserted, or a bootable DVD, will the OS move on to boot one of the kernels you have.
I have a DVD, containing the first DVD of the Debian jessie, and a USB stick, which I believe contains the rest of jessie , and I wish to install jessie using these purchases. But I can't if I can't get anything to boot except the old wheezy kernels that have been on my system for ever. Sorry for the confusion. Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/ "Women run for office to do something, and men run for office to be somebody." (Debbie Walsh)