Re: [Dorset] Restoring Grub on an EFI Machine

2016-10-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:25:55 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > On your laptop at the pub last night I edited /etc/default/grub to > change true to false for GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER. And then run > `update-grub'. All sudo'd. > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#line-237 And there

Re: [Dorset] Restoring Grub on an EFI Machine

2016-10-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, On your laptop at the pub last night I edited /etc/default/grub to change true to false for GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER. And then run `update-grub'. All sudo'd. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#line-237 -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy -- Next

Re: [Dorset] Restoring Grub on an EFI Machine

2016-10-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 4 October 2016 19:22:04 BST Tim wrote: > I downloaded this boot dvd the last time I had an issue with grub > > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ > > It scanned the disk found the two disk with the two distro on, offered > me a solution and when I agreed it wrote me a new

Re: [Dorset] Restoring Grub on an EFI Machine

2016-10-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 15:06:34 BST John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > This thread is a little depressing because at work I was given a brand new > 15" MacBook Pro on arrival which is very lovely I suppose, but I hate it. > It seems that installing Linux on it (other than in a VM) is not allowed,

Re: [Dorset] Restoring Grub on an EFI Machine

2016-10-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > This one (designated 9350) has none of that and the Restore to Factory > Defaults hot-key is not active, even though the recovery image occupies a > partition on the machine. Are you aware of Ubuntu on Dell XPS 13 9350

Re: [Dorset] Restoring Grub on an EFI Machine

2016-10-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 17:19:54 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote: > That would fit with my experience buying a laptop from Dell, > with Ubuntu installed, in 2008. > > A year or two passed before everything in the laptop was > supported by standard Linux distributions, without Dell's >