On Wednesday 01 June 2016 01:31:26 Felix Miata wrote: > > The word was a little stronger than is totally justified. This is > > attached to a television. I want to just turn it on. Ubuntu boots but > > is unusable, so I have to hover over it, grab GRUB and get into Debian, > > because Ubuntu has kyboshed (=destroyed) Debian's GRUB (of course!!). > > That's what *every* Linux installer will do if you do nothing to stop it, > just like Windows will do unconditionally when it doesn't find compatible > MBR code already installed. Had you installed Buntu first, then Debian > after, Debian's installer would have usurped Buntu's Grub.
That is why I said "of course". And that is why I said *I* kyboshed it and not *Ubuntu* kyboshed it. To be fair to myself, I did not expect Ubuntu to be completely unusable. Lisi
