180721 Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:47:25 BST Jack wrote: >> Are you sure this wasn't fallout from the recent grub problems >> in the Mint ISO : https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3620 ? >> I can't find the relevant message, so I'm not sure where I saw it. >> However, it seems like the issue was that installing Mint >> messed up Grub and left the PC unbootable. > I posted this blog entry on another thread, but the GRUB problem > described there breaks EFI installations when the live session > is connected to the Internet.
There were 2 different issues re Mint + Grub, the one above & my own gruesome half-hour after the installer for Mint 19 overwrote my MBR without warning & forced me to use System Rescue, fiddle with some files & run Lilo to restore the MBR to what it sb. All is well with the new Mint 19 now, but there is no simple way to send a bug report to the Mint developers. Well, not quite all : Mint suggests the new user update some pkgs, but when you say "ok", it pokes around, then says it can't connect to its repositories. Gentoo has its irritating features -- Portage output 1st among them -- , but a few brief hours with Mint reminds me how much better it is than all those pre-cooked binary distros which are the alternative. And all of them are far better than trying to live in the Microsoft Motel. (smile for now) -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
