Greg M On 12/31/2016 01:29 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 31 December 2016 17:56:59 Felmon Davis wrote:
suppose I now install Trinity. should I let it write to the mbr or rather to its own partition?
I am confused, or you are confused, or we are both confused.
I think I am.
Trinity is a desktop environment, not an operating system.
you're right, of course. I usually install DE and OS together. thus the conflation.
The mbr doesn't come into it. Install the relevant operating system, with or without a DE, then install Trinity from the Trinity repositories as you would any other software from your distros repositories. Then it cannot muck up your other OS's.
updating/installing grub might solve the lack of grub boot screen. I would use the 'dry-run' option..os-prober is the part that looks for all the other OS's installed so grub can build a multiboot scenario.
Debian has no issues with uefi, at least stretch.
ps multiboot is the old way, if you have the hardware, virtualization works great. I use Debian with Win7 as a guest..runs fine..caveat, I have an OEM Win7 disk.,
greg