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
