Hello again,
I'm in the midst of installing PCLinux on an external DD as a second OS to Win7. I was impressed with the smoothness of PCLinux's DrakeInstaller, as I believe it was called.
That is, until after I had installed the bootloader in the linux partition. The next screen recognized that I had done so, and it asked me where I was booting from. My response was, "Why do you want to know????" I did NOT want it to mess with my basic boot structure, which through much labor Easy had helped me establish, and that's what I suspected was the reason for the question.
Eventually I felt I had no choice but to continue, but surprisingly it turned out that it did not touch the sda mbr or the sda1 bootloader. I still don't know then why the question was asked. So, back in Windows, I added the PCLinux partition into Easy.
But now, all I get is the text "GRUB_ ..." on a blank screen when I choose the linux install.
I suspect Easy's Add Entry option "[] GRUB isn't installed in MBR/bootsector", which I did not select, has something to do with this. But, as with the obscure DrakeInstaller page, I really don't know why Easy is presenting this to me, or which MBR/bootsector it is referring to. I believe I did place GRUB in the partition bootsector.
Basically, I'm caught in ambiguity between the two programs. Does anyone have light on this?
Thanks,
p.
I'm in the midst of installing PCLinux on an external DD as a second OS to Win7. I was impressed with the smoothness of PCLinux's DrakeInstaller, as I believe it was called.
That is, until after I had installed the bootloader in the linux partition. The next screen recognized that I had done so, and it asked me where I was booting from. My response was, "Why do you want to know????" I did NOT want it to mess with my basic boot structure, which through much labor Easy had helped me establish, and that's what I suspected was the reason for the question.
Eventually I felt I had no choice but to continue, but surprisingly it turned out that it did not touch the sda mbr or the sda1 bootloader. I still don't know then why the question was asked. So, back in Windows, I added the PCLinux partition into Easy.
But now, all I get is the text "GRUB_ ..." on a blank screen when I choose the linux install.
I suspect Easy's Add Entry option "[] GRUB isn't installed in MBR/bootsector", which I did not select, has something to do with this. But, as with the obscure DrakeInstaller page, I really don't know why Easy is presenting this to me, or which MBR/bootsector it is referring to. I believe I did place GRUB in the partition bootsector.
Basically, I'm caught in ambiguity between the two programs. Does anyone have light on this?
Thanks,
p.