Deja Vu!!

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I had to be dragged screaming, from lilo, to using grub. However, at the end of the day, having to remember to run lilo whenever any of the images had changed... and usually forgetting... made me finally give in... and admit that grub was better.

I will watch more closely while doing a re-install and be careful about picking GRUB or Lilo or whatever. My only real issue has to do with Linux recording, posting or identifying itself or whatever or anything it does only on its own partition where I can later go get it ... and I think it is because of Win7's hidden boot partition that Linux does not even know there is any other system on my machine ... and that scares me a bit since Linux might then think it has free reign and access everywhere! Again, the date and time got messed up both in Mint and Win7 when Linux did not boot a couple of days ago, and that indicates to me that I need a tough wall between Windows and Mint.

Grub 2 has been problematic with triple boot OSX systems, that is about all.

I really appreciate the info from each of you, and I will definitely watch for GRUB this next time ... probably tomorrow evening.

I do not have EasyBCD within reach at the moment, but I think it had at least four different choice in its Linux category.

Update:

I first want you to know I am dealing with a legitimate copy of Office '95 legitimately, and with that said ...

I have discovered a little more here.

Somewhere I read something about older stuff needing to be in a FAT partition in order to work properly, so I have made a FAT32 partition available (even if not really necessary). Then in XP, I have made a "Send to Desktop" shortcut for the .exe file for "BookShelf" ... and now here is what I have discovered:

After responding to a box asking for the location of the BookShelf "disk" (now on the drive), that shortcut works fine from the Desktop (in the specific account) where it was first sent. But after using Windows Explorer to simply copy that working shortcut to the Docs-and-Sets Desktop for "All Users", I still had to go into each account and click on that shortcut and respond to the same box asking for a location in order for "BookShelf" to be found and to work from each of the other accounts.

Question: Do you happen to know why one shortcut in a common-to-all location needs to be directed six times in order to work for five regular accounts and "Guest"?

I am trying to "see inside" a bit here.

Likely due to time zone. Windows assumes the CMOS clock is on local time while the default for linux is UTC.
To change linux to match windows' behavior, edit:
/etc/adjtime
and change UTC to local


I haven't used Mint before but I will be very surprised if any distro still default to lilo. If there's a choice between grub and grub2 though, you may want to stick with grub.


Windows 7's hidden WinRE partition is used for recovery only. It's not used in normal booting. Unless you deleted it with programs that have trouble with the unusual format, that's not likely the problem. oth, if you relied on EasyBCD but choose the wrong bootloader, then the entries it made may not be usuful.


I guess that dialog is from Bookshelf itself. It probably stores the CD drive letter in the registry and will display that prompt if that entry is missing. That will explain why it asked once for every account.

EasyBCD simply added a selection in my multi-boot options, but then I later had to use it twice to get that option removed for now. I hope to give this all another try over the next couple of days, and this time around I will pay more attention to what I am doing! Most problems I have with computers are ones I cause myself, and sometimes I will do something a little carelessly just to see whether a given program was written well enough to either catch me or even correct an error. In this case, I was meaning to be careful but was nevertheless affected by my own lack of experience and really knowing what needed to be done.



That makes sense, and I thank you! I slept much better last night.