On Saturday 27 November 2004 12:24, Daniel MacDonald wrote: > The first time I installed RC2, I just presumed it was > going to install a 2.6 kernel by default, which is > what I wanted. It should tell you which kernel will be > installed on the boot splash screen before the > installer is loaded,as well as telling you to type > 'linux26' if you want the new kernel. This will save > people going through the entire base install procedure > and then re-installing or having to figure out how to > upgrade to the latest kernel afterwards.
Well, you could also have quickly browsed through the F1 - F10 help screens where such options are listed. > Upon rebooting, after the first base system install > (with the 2.4 kernel), GRUB had detected my Windows XP > Pro partition and added it to the boot menu. Not > wanting a 2.4 based system I did a re-install, this > time issueing the 'linux26' command and again all went > fine but this time after installing the base system > and rebooting GRUB gave no option to boot into > Windows. Fortunately, I knew how to fix this but > people new to Linux would've got very worried that > they lost their Windows drive if that happened to them. Did you by any chance select a mountpoint for your windows partition the second time? In that case, this is a known problem (see bug #251794). Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
