Re: Close to giving up on Linux...

adamomitcheney@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Dan Espen wrote:
adamomitcheney@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Apologies in advance for the ranty nature of this.

Oh, oh, now you've done it!

Aye... Sorry, but I had to get the frustration off my chest.

OK, don't listen, no skin off my back as they say...

Installation appears to be proceeding fine until it comes to reboot
time - straight back into windows, no grub (or lilo or whatever it uses
as a boot manager) and not even a CD I can use to point the machine to
the linux loader. I posted something about this earlier and maybe if I
get a response to that query I can go on.

Exactly the symptom you get it if you don't install the boot loader
in the MBR. That's a choice during the install. If you don't know
how to change the boot loader that is there to boot linux then
install the Linux boot loader in the MBR.

OK, a few more details (no-one has responded to my other post).

There was no choice to install boot loader to the MBR. The issue, I
suspect, is that I have windoze on a SATA disk and have been trying to
install linux across three PATA disks.

Every installer has the choice.
I can't tell you for sure what it's called in the GUI, but
I know it's there.
.

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