<div dir="ltr"><div>Update: Got over to my U-MATE 20.04 partition yesterday and in the interest of science I ran an apt update/upgrade . . . and again I got the "Where is grub?" question in the GUI. This time I checked all three options, which turned out to again be "wrong" . . . as following the reboot ONLY U-MATE was available. I searched the U-MATE forum and found reference to "grub hidden" ?? which seemed "similar" and I added myself to the bug report associated with it.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1863434/">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1863434/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 2:51 PM Fritz Hudnut <<a href="mailto:este.el.paz@gmail.com">este.el.paz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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!!!</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>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 . . . ???</div><div><br></div><div>I'll report back if there are any salient updates on the problem . . . otherwise problem seems to have been resolved . . . .<br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:35 PM Fritz Hudnut <<a href="mailto:este.el.paz@gmail.com" target="_blank">este.el.paz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Folks:</div><div><br></div><div>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 . . . .<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Wha happen mon? Wha happen?<br></div></div>
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