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I decided to jump the Windows ship. Since I've used Q4OS Live and also installed it on an ancient Netbook, installing it on my primary machine seemed like a no brainer, BUT I'm a cautious old biddy, so I only installed on one of the two drives in my desktop PC. I formatted the drive from windows and installed Q4OS Aquarius from the Live disc. All went beautifully ... until I wanted to boot into the drive that has practically my life on it, and it was a no-go. I'd seen this before (albeit not with 2 drives), so I dug out a repair disc and rebooted. And went into Q4OS. So I tried a different disc, then a couple of thumb drives. Q4OS booted faithfully each time. I could see the Windows drive and access the files on it, but I could not boot into it.
My experience with Linux in limited and almost exclusively with GUI, but over the past four days I've grown fairly comfortable with Terminal and CLI. Until this afternoon, when I figured out that the problem was GRUB_DEFAULT=0 and GRUB_TIMEOUT=1. It was easy enough to edit the grub file, but when it came time to to update-grub, I kept getting error messages: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 1: /etc/default/grub: If: not found. No idea why the system couldn't find it; it's definitely there, and I am definitely in over my head.
Any help will be most welcome, but please keep in mind I'm quite brain-fried right now.
N. Aardvark
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