(Please excuse my cc to Mr Cater)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 2:42:28 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:58:03PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> This one should be _real_ easy!
. . . . .
> But I don't know how to get my new Jessie to boot! Back when I had one of my
> first Linuxes and MS-DOS on my system, one got a prompt: "L or M" as soon as
> one turned on the computer. Things are now more subtle I'm sure, and they are
> too subtle for me!
>
> So can someone who also has a dual-bootable system(with Windows 10 and Jessie)
> please tell me how you choose, at boot-time, which of your systems you wish to
> boot?
> Boot your install medium - enter rescue mode - reinstall grub?
I tried Rescue Mode. Maybe I'm not doing it right, but I got thrown
into
"Chose language", "Choose Keyboard" . . . just as if I were doing a
fresh
install. ? ? ?
But I don't need that. I played with the BIOS a little, and now I boot
automatically
into my new Jessie. I am busy installing stuff and getting stuff off of
backups, etc . .
But I'd still like to be asked, right after I turn the machine on, which OS I'd
like
to boot.
My present /boot/grub/ directory contains minimal stuff:
fonts/ , grub.cfg , grubenv , i386-pc/ , locale/ , unicode.pf2
But when I run apt-cache search grub , it shows me a lot more stuff that I
could install. So I ask again, this time from a position of being able to
install
and configure grub , how do I do it, and make it give me a good clean choice of
OS when I turn my machine on in the morning?
I hope that this is the place to ask; or is there an E-list full of grub
experts?
TIA,
Alan McConnell
