The deeper I go, the deeper it gets...
Now, I have used Gparted to (apparently) wipe out that sda5. I partitioned
the hard drive once again and came up with an sda1 and an sda2, and a swap
partition. (An interesting side note here is that this is the first time I
have ever placed the swap partition at the end, as the last partition. In
the past I had always put it in the center, between the two partitions. I
put it at the end because an article I read said it was best to put it at the
end or the beginning, so that it's easiest to get to/). I have never seen
any of these kinds of problems before prior to my doing this, so maybe it's
got something to do with it? Dunno.).
Everything appeared normal, and so I slapped a frugal install of Tahr Pup
onto the sda1 (only because Puppy is wicked fast and I didn't want to wait
for a bigger installation). It didn't work. Wouldn't boot. So I stuck the
disk back in there and installed it again, only a full install this time
around. It still didn't boot, but instead went to the advanced menu options,
which I selected, then shows me, in this order: a back to the main menu
option, previous menu, the Tahr install I just did, showing it as (sda1:PBS),
then Find Grub2, Grub4DOS commandline, reboot computer, and halt computer. I
selected the (sda1:PBS) and it booted normally. Once up and running
everything looks normal. But now every time I boot up I have to walk
throught the menu options in order to boot--and allegedly there is no other
operating system installed on this hard drive! Wow! It's been quite a
morning!
