On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 08:57:19 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > Warning: This E-mail is for the most part in the nature of a pushback against > various insinuations that have been made.
Warning duly noted; most of this mail is snipped so we can concentrate on the technical aspects of your issue. [...Snippety-snip...] > Again, for the third time: I hope that an new release of the Debian > installation SW > will be able to detect when another OS is already on the system, and that a > proper and > simple procedure will be put in place for e.g. newbies to Linux or to > dual-bootable > systems to be able to choose between the systems immediately after the > machine self-test. You were asked for some information. You declined to provide it. As a route to solving a technical problem your response leaves a lot to be desired. The output of interest is from os-prober. You know what it, unless you are so uninterested in seeking a solution you haven't even run it or are keeping what it says to yourself. If you had clue and had provided a decent, useful response you would then have been directed to read /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft. The light would then have dawned (perhaps). All the time you would be learning and helping yourself. But no - whinging wins out. Far easier for you to that than think for yourself. You may be interested to know that the Debian Fairy has waved her magic wand and made your machine dual bootable. From os-prober's changelog on unstable: * Add support for Windows 10 (otherwise reported as Windows Recovery Environment). Thanks, Philipp Wolfer! (Closes: #801278). -- Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:26:16 +0200 With this information your every desire can be realised. Your problem now has a proper solution. Surely what you can do to have a dual boot doesn't need spelling out? > Finally: I have taken a resolution not to respond to further chastisement or > smarm. > Please help me to keep it! I don't do smarm. If you perceived what I wrote to be that, it reveals a weakness in my irony, sarcasm and mild insults modules. -- Brian.