Boot Problems
It is common for
your Windows machine to stop booting.
It reads the boot
sector and if it does not it hangs up.
I know very little
about windows since I do not use it, even though I have a Win 7 in one
of the partitions.
I use Linux Grub to
boot windows, since windows never supported booting a Linux
distribution.
In addition one need
to boot windows first and thereafter Linux.
I have an old IBM,
the last one out of the ten (rest dismantled and retired to junk)
distributions.
Its SATA hard disk's
boot sector is gone for good and I cannot boot it but I use a devious
method to boot all my my Linux distributions (may be five).
Linux lets you boot
off from a different partition and is not choosy of the first boot
sector.
Each distribution
has a copy of the Grub file for booting.
Today I downloaded
Devil Linux and booted it to find it says no no Grub and goes to
rescue mode (which I have forgotten now).
So I thought my hard
disk finally succumbed to my perennial insults which include sudden
power drops and outage.
So bit worried when
through my devious routine but still the same result.
Why do I post this?
To report I have no
computer to access the web.
No.
I did not do my
routine right.
I had a USB hard
disk attached to the system.
I am using it to
copy all my valid data, in case my hard disk goes out.
It does not have a
bootable Linux in it.
Now I have gone to
the minimal MicroSD boot, using a MultiUSB port.
Mind you this solid
state hard disks are killing the turntable disks and sending them to
the junk yard prematurely.
So one cardinal rule
nowadays is to have minimum of 4 GIB RAM and USB bootable boot menu.
I still use 1 GIB
RAM.
I like the slow pace
anyway since my physiology is gradually slowing down.
Good RAM and USB
booting are the minimum one needs.
So if your USB does
not have a bootable sector it won't boot up.
Nothing wrong with
the hardware.
It is prudent to
have a bootable USB with some of its extra data storage is reserved
for saving data.
Linux can do all
this especially the Knoppix.
Latest Knoppix is
out but there is a fault in the torrent right now.
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