[mdlug] mdlug Digest, Vol 162, Issue 6

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Try using wine or playonlinux(wine sandbox) to see of those systems
will run. 
use disks and save a partition image of the win7 drive just in case


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>    1. Fwd: Windows 7 screen after dual boot (David L Lambert)
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> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:11:08 +0000 (UTC)
> From: David L Lambert <davidl at lmert.com>
> To: mdlug at mdlug.org
> Subject: [mdlug] Fwd: Windows 7 screen after dual boot
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> The reason I got pulled away from the meeting...
> 
> One of our laptops is dual-boot, Windows 7 Enterprise and Debian 
> Stable.? My youngest child decided to reboot it to Windows 7, and it 
> comes up with the following screen, has sat there for at least 15 
> minutes, no clue when it'll finish...
> 
>     *Your computer was unable to start.*
>     Startup Repair is checking your system for problems...
> 
>     If problems are found, Startup Repair will fix them
> automatically.
>     Your computer might restart several times during this process.
> 
>     No changes will be made to your personal files or information.
> This
>     might take several minutes.
> 
> Since Windows 7 is out of support, I have some inclination to just
> wipe 
> that part of the disk and make it single-boot; but my kids want to
> keep 
> Windows 7 in particular for the following applications:
> 
>   * Angry Birds (youngest child)
>   * Roblox (second-youngest child, my daughter, who you saw on the
> meeting)
>   * Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, City Skylines, maybe a few others
> (oldest
>     child)
> 
> I wonder if my modification to /etc/rc.local that uses Widows's 
> "PAGEFILE.SYS" as an additional swapfile triggered the check, or if
> it's 
> just a fancy front-end to full-sidk CHKDSK (like fsck after 180 days 
> without a check...)
> 
> Anyone seen this particular screen before, and know of a key-sequence 
> to 
> skip it, or other workaround? Any suggestions for how to run Angry
> Birds 
> on Linux, or of a similar Linux alternative?
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	Windows 7 screen after dual boot
> Date: 	Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:44:21 +0000 (UTC)
> From: 	David Lee Lambert <davidleelambert at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: 	davidleelambert at yahoo.com <davidleelambert at yahoo.com>
> To: 	MDLUG's Main Discussion List <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> CC: 	David Lee Lambert <davidl at lmert.com>
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