Thank you for the responses, once again. I found that on my laptop, F12 will give all boot options. The windows boot manaer is listed, as are any USB iso, and (I think) grub wiht three Linux options. So all is well, pretty much. I am still plannin to experiment with installing Arch. Alan On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Sergey Manucharian <sm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Alan E. Davis's message from Mon 05-May-14 22:03: > > However, I have run into a wrinkle where nothing is working, > > so i need Windoze, much to my consternation. > > Well, the easiest and quickest way would be installing Windows in > VirtualBox, that's a think you may want to have anyway. > > Personally I have even three of them: Windows XP, Windows 7 32 bit, > Windows 7 64 bit. Most of the time I have them in a saved state (not > running). > > Cheers, > Sergey >
