Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:13:50AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote:
On 2/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I don't suppose you have a grub-disk (floppy based. Why doesn't someone
make a grub-stick?)? From that you can run grub manually.


Well, from a user-level point of view, I have no interest in extended
tinkering. If Gentoo did it right out of the box, why couldn't debian?

It's a shame because most of hte books at the bookstore are on debian
linux. But I can't afford any more time on something that
blankety-blank simple.

Don't reply to this. I'm blocking out this list from now on.


I'm curious. I've thought back over this thread and can't recall
(without digging through the archives) what happened here that might
have provoked this sort of response.

I do recall that there was not a lot of good detailed information from
OP on the problem, but maybe I missed it. What are we, as a community
of trying-to-be-helpful users, doing to cause this reaction? It seems
to be happening more and more, though maybe I'm new enough to not see
the pattern properly. Clearly this guy is upset, frustrated, but to
block out the list that's supposed to be trying to help is
disturbing.

maybe I'm being overly sensitive.

A

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