Re: buntu kybosh (was: How to properly install...)

2016-05-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 01 June 2016 00:15:20 Felix Miata wrote:
> Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-05-31 18:06 (UTC+0100):
> > ...I have just kyboshed the computer I have attached
> > to the television by trying Ubuntu MATE 16.04 as a dual boot.  I am
> > mentally working out the best way at least to make it take a very back
> > seat, before I wipe the lot in frustration.  And Debian Jessie was just
> > working nicely.
>
> Just what constituted the kyboshing? Neither boots?

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!!).  

Since seeing the screen is difficult, and I watch television only when I am 
tired, this is tedious in the extreme, and it was working beautifully, all 
but Channel 4 replays, before I gave Ubuntu a chance.  I thought that dual 
booting couldn't do any harm.  I had forgotten Ubuntu's ability to do harm 
when in my hands.  What was that Stephen said about guns and feet. ;-)

Lisi



Re: buntu kybosh (was: How to properly install...)

2016-05-31 Thread Felix Miata

Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-05-31 18:06 (UTC+0100):


...I have just kyboshed the computer I have attached
to the television by trying Ubuntu MATE 16.04 as a dual boot.  I am mentally
working out the best way at least to make it take a very back seat, before I
wipe the lot in frustration.  And Debian Jessie was just working nicely.


Just what constituted the kyboshing? Neither boots?
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