It seems Dan Norton has decided to selfishly make *his* spam problem into everybody else's spam problem, and I've just had a bounce message in response to my mail below, saying I have to ask to be added to his list of allowed senders. I refuse to pander to this - I guess he will have to do without any help...
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 04:46:16PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 02:59:44PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: >> >>After installing stretch, it changed to: >> >>UEFI Boot Sources >> debian >> ATAPI CD/DVD Drive >> USB Floppy/CD >> USB Hard Drive >>Legacy Boot Sources >> [...] >> >>If done by firmware, wouldn't grub or the installer have to tell >>the firmware to put "debian" in the bios menu and make it first? In its >>past life, this PC ran Windows 7 but in order to boot from mountable >>media there was no need for the user to change the boot order. > >You've been bitten by an unexpected change due to your PC's vendor >doing crap setup, I'm afraid. For your setup to have worked, that >means that you had a Windows setup using BIOS boot, but the BIOS set >to boot UEFI first then BIOS second. If you want sensible dual boot >with a BIOS-booting Windows, the best way to achieve that is to turn >UEFI boot *off* in the BIOS setup so you have consistency between the >two OSes. The installer even has code to check for this setup and >offer you a chance to *not* install in UEFI mode if it detects traces >of BIOS-booting OSes on your system. > >-- >Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com > Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there > must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the > far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled > knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html