On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 19:32 +0200, an unknown sender wrote:
> Unfortunately it doesn't always work properly on Squeeze.
update-grub never worked for my needs, on all distros I use(d) but to be
fair, it's easy to edit grub.cfg manually too. I used grub 2 a long time
myself, some time ago I switched
On 06/05/12 12:01 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, an unknown sender wrote:
Using Grub Legacy is attractive.
How complex would the change be?
Remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB Legacy. That's it.
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, an unknown sender wrote:
> > Using Grub Legacy is attractive.
> >How complex would the change be?
>
> Remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB Legacy. That's it.
>
> >In the future would an "update" o
2012-05-06 14:26, Richard Owlett skrev:
Version 6.0.4 Without double checking I believe that's "Squeeze".
That caused me to notice that there was no intuitively obvious way to
determine what version is running. I had to look at the file name of the
iso file.
I would look at the file /etc/debia
On Sun 06 May 2012 at 07:05:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>> If you use GRUB 2, more likely for a default Debian install ;), than
>> perhaps running "update-grub" with root privileges might add Windows
>> automatically to grub.cfg. If not, I would recommend to switch to
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, an unknown sender wrote:
> Using Grub Legacy is attractive.
>How complex would the change be?
Remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB Legacy. That's it.
>In the future would an "update" or "upgrade" try to move
> me back to GRUB2?
I don't think so.
> I know th
On Sun, 06 May 2012 07:26:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>>> Why a "learning experience"?
>>> 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/
>>
>> That did not sound reassuring :-(
>
> Why? Although the tr
Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Why a "learning experience"?
'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/
That did not sound reassuring :-(
Why? Although the trigger for moving to Linux was annoyance
with Gates & Co., my methodology is *
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 08:30 +0200, an unknown sender wrote:
b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot
Windows?
The menu is in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (GRUB 2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (GRUB
Legacy).
You don't need to know what Windows you have installed, since it
Johan Grönqvist wrote:
2012-05-06 00:10, Richard Owlett skrev:
Why a "learning experience"?
'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/
NOW, when system boots I have 2 choices - Debian and
Debian in recovery
mode.
b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot
Windows
On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Why a "learning experience"?
> 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/
That did not sound reassuring :-(
> The install went fairly smoothly until it set up Grub.
You mean Squeeze or Wheezy netinstall?
> I had opted fo
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 08:30 +0200, an unknown sender wrote:
> b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot
> Windows?
The menu is in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (GRUB 2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (GRUB
Legacy).
You don't need to know what Windows you have installed, since it's done
by chainloa
2012-05-06 00:10, Richard Owlett skrev:
Why a "learning experience"?
'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/
NOW, when system boots I have 2 choices - Debian and Debian in recovery
mode.
b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot Windows?
I think I have seen
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