Sunday
This has been a trying day.

I decided to attempt to install Linux on the PC this afternoon. In theory, that’s not so bad; in practice it has been a royal pain in the ass. The installation went smoothly enough. It was the aftermath that would have caused me to pull out my hair… if I had hair to pull, that is.

Apparently, the Linux boot information and my Windows boot information decided to vie for “King of the Mountain” rights. But, just like the fabled Jack and Jill, they both came tumbling downhill.

I spent the late afternoon and all evening at Adrian’s trying to come up with viable corrective measures. We came up with a (final) plan of attack around 21:30

  1. Wipe the new hard drive (again).
  2. Reinstall Linux and partition the drive from there.
  3. Reinstall Windows.
  4. Pray. A LOT.

So far, Steps 1, 2 and 4 seem to be working. Windows, once again, is attempting to assert its independence. It’s reminding me of a rather headstrong teenager.

Back to it. Hopefully, this (or something close to it) will work… or we’ll see how well the system responds to deceleration trauma imposed from a three-story gravity-induced fall.

Peace.