----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Miata" <mrma...@earthlink.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 11:33:46 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-10 17:45 (UTC-0400):
> Good grief. I just wrote that I am now logged in to a working jessie.
> So I can run any kind of apt-get, aptitude, etc.
> So I repeat: apt-cache search grub gives me lots of grub files to install.
> Do I want to install a different grub?
> Possibly, though not likely. What does 'dpkg -l | grep grub' show now?
I have grub 2.0.2
What works for me now is the following: If I do nothing, I boot
directly
into Jessie. However, if I wish to boot into Windoze, which is what
I'll do
a lot for now, since I haven't even got an X11 system running on my
Jessie,
I press and hold F12, to get into the choose boot method pre-OS screen.
There I choose Windows boot manager(recall that this is a new machine, a
generic Dell, so OF COURSE it had Windows installed. And after choosing
this, of course what I get is a nice boot into Windoze.
Before leaving this topic, I have a remark: I have been telling interested and
non-interested people for years that one doesn't have to completely abandon
one's
long-held Windoze habit, one can install Linux as a second OS and play with both
until Linux has "sold itself". I shudder to think of someone taking my advice,
following all the instructions, and winding up with a system where only Linux
is available. Imagine being taken out of one's English-speaking world and
dumped
into a village in Uzbekistan!
Fortunately I live in a facility where there is a "computer lab" to which I have
access. And I was able to go there, use their Chrome browser to get to my
his.com
E-mail facility, whine to you folks, and blunder my way through to a solution.
Other people won't have that good fortune.
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
operation of installing a second OS(Linux) on a Windoze box is as easy and
error-proof as it is possible to make it.
Best wishes, and thanks to all the kind responders who helped me.
Alan McConnell
