----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian" <a...@cityscape.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:09:12 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
> What is "unenlightening" to you may not be unenlightening to others;
> trust me on that. "garbage" is *your* value judgement;
> No, I'm going to insist on my "garbage" denotation. Since I have a
> very
> acceptable way of going from one OS to another, your input on what
> os-prober
> returned to me is of little interest to me, and much less to the
> other members
> of this E-list, I'm sure.
You can insist on what you want. It is easy when only you know what the
the output is.
<G> I've seen error messages before.
> an expert programmer, which I used to be but am not any more, could
> put those
> few simple steps into a "first of all" window. Maybe a simple grub
> file?
That's fine; it does what you want and will serve you well. Stick with
it. but forget about involving GRUB.
But a flow chart to do it would be easy:
Read input
if input=L then
do nothing
else if input=W, then
change boot method to Windows Boot Manager
else
return to read input
fi
Something like that could be easily implemented, methinks. But
I'm
not going to do it.
> Yes. If I could move stuff from my Windows OS to my Jessie, and vice
> versa, that would be a big help. Any suggestions from anyone about
> that?
> Linux used to be able to go into MS-DOS and put files there and get
> files
> out of there. Has anyone any information on that?
I rather think there is an answer in the response you quoted.
I didn't see it. Remind me.
> xorg(or maybe it was x11), and my 'startx', from my old
> wheezy(fortunately
> saved) worked, after I'd done a few tweeks to my .xinitrc. I tried my
> old beloved sawfish(now wmctl) but that didn't work as well as
> metacity.
Good. (Your technique is extraordinary but comments on it are outside
the scope of this thread).
Thank you! I would rather start off with a X-less tty1 and then enter
X
with my own choice of what to run, how the background looks, etc.
startx,
with a good .xinit, does all I want. Simplicity, dear my lord,
makes computing yare. <G>
> a username and password which got me, and keeps me, online . . . but only for
> the
> Windoze side. I gotta do some exploring to see if I can make this work with
> Jessie.
I'm confident you are resourceful and will manage.
<LOL> I trust that your confidence in me is not misplaced.
Alan
