[lubuntu-devel] [fixed?] running update/upgrade in Lu 20.04 . .. grub connections wiped??

[Fritz Hudnut]

Oh the lonely life of the free-style multi-booter . . . I am under the
impression that the problem has been abated . . . not exactly sure why . .
. moved the hard drives around in the computer, physically . . . .  Then
chrooted from Lu 20 into TW Yast and got to their "os-prober" . . . and
that seems to have gotten me back into the nice OpenSUSE grub window!!!

1.) Question is why does this seem to only work via chroot-ing, because I
went through each of the OSs and ran their version of "update-grub" and it
didn't work, but the chrooting from one HD to another one does seem to snap
grub back into play?

2.) What was going on in Lubuntu update/upgrade that brought out the
console GUI inquiry about "What should we do with grub?" . . . have never
seen anything like that in many years of "apt-get" or "apt" reaching across
and cleaning grub connections as happened yesterday . . . ???

I'll report back if there are any salient updates on the problem . . .
otherwise problem seems to have been resolved . . . .


On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:35 PM Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> Did a routine apt update/upgrade today and in the list was "grub" . . . I
> didn't notice if anything else relating to "grub" was in there . . . but
> toward the end of installing something like 174 packages in the console . .
> . a "GUI" window opened saying something, "Grub is confused, where do you
> want Grub to go?"  And it showed three lines for the 3 drives I have with
> the "[ *]"  sdb box checked . . . sda only has OSX and that "[ ]" was empty
> and so was sdc "[ ]" . . . since sdc is where Lubuntu is installed I tried
> to check it, but didn't remember how to do that, tab was moving the cursor
> . . . arrow was moving it up or down . . . so I hit return . . . and
> "Bazinga" the GUI window disappeared, the little man went behind the
> curtain . . . and the console finished up its process.  But in actuality I
> didn't change anything that the updater was showing me . . . only sdb was
> checked and that wasn't changed . . . .
>
> On reboot I tried to get into my "main" EFI boot disk where all of the 5
> linux OSs are listed, and, oops . . . a line of errors . . . went to grub
> rescue.  I am able to get directly to Lu && U-MATE 20 via their own EFI
> disks . . . but the other three I have to use SG2 to get into an old???
> Grub window that does load all of the systems, but it won't show up in
> normal boot.  I have a somewhat "complicated" set up, but I haven't had any
> apt update run in such a way that this special window opens asking me to
> target the drive for grub . . . with the result that grub gets broken . . .
> from "within"??  Usually it is OSX side that messes up grub.  I then ran
> "grub-update" in Lu && U-MATE, got over to the OpenSUSE installs via SG2 .
> . . ran Yast Bootloader, ran their console command to "set up grub" when I
> do that it finds all of the systems, but trying to boot via grub itself . .
> . goes to grub rescue window???  I even ran "update-grub" in Manjaro . . .
> but only SG2 is getting me into those installs.
>
> Wha happen mon?  Wha happen?
>
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