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Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

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On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:58:03PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> This one should be _real_ easy!
> 
> Two days ago, my hard drive on my (now) discarded computer gave up the ghost.
> After consideration, and advice from friends, I went out to Staples and bought
> a Dell, with <sob> Windoze installed.  I hooked up everything and Windoze boots
> OK, my sound works, etc.
> 
> This morning I installed Jessie, and this time the install went well.  I could
> put in partitions for / , /usr/, /boot, /var, /tmp, and put in a big swap
> partition.  When I rebooted at the end of the install, I got my Windows again, which
> pleased me, since I'd left it in, giving it 50 gig of my terabyte drive.
> 
> 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?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Alan McConnell
> 

Boot your install medium - enter rescue mode - reinstall grub?

HTH,

Andy C 

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icedove: failed to connect server XXX@gmail.com mudongliang <mudongliangabcd@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-09 17:10 +0200
  How to get Jessie to run at boot time Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-09-09 20:00 +0200
    Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-09 20:10 +0200
    Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 20:50 +0200
      Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-09-10 17:50 +0200
        Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-10 18:40 +0200
          Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-09-10 23:50 +0200
            Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-09-11 00:50 +0200
            Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-11 06:40 +0200
              Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-09-11 17:20 +0200
                Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-11 20:40 +0200
                Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-09-11 21:20 +0200
                Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-11 22:00 +0200
                Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-12 13:20 +0200
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