> From:Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday 24th January 2018 23:55 > To: Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]> > Cc: R P Herrold <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Problem recreating grub2 menu in SL7 dual boot with Win10 > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > All sorted. > > The second USB stick worked OK before doing the chroot. > > Good. I was wondering why the first stick didn't have network enabled > when it booted. Not all drivers work perfectly from some USB sticks > and the minimal kernel present on them, but I've certainly used them > myself to do recovery work. The first USB stick was used to boot, but wireless network didn't work. I didn't try wired network. It could have been I was trying to use the network within chroot. The second USB stick was used in addition to the first, to convey the fastbugs rpm files I needed. That was successful, but then I found the boot partition had been corrupted, so I reinstalled SL7 again and recovered my data from backuppc. An interesting learning experience. > > I'm trying to figure out why you're doing dual boot. Does the Windows > box not have enough resources to run VirtualBox, and run your working > Linux in a VM ? I've found that very useful for development work, > since Steam doesn't work as well on Linux boxes to give access to > games I might like to play with all resources available. > I'm using dual boot rather than VirtualBox because I find the idea of running Linux under Windows abhorrent. I may eventually rebuild the laptop as SL7 only. Anyway, thanks for your suggestions Nico.