Using my AMD Athlon II quad-core machine, I install the 64-bit versions of the distributions, but does not support EFI boot. I had been having problems with the standard GRUB install since I upgraded from 18.04 even with a standard DOS partitioning. This past autumn, I re-partitioned my main 1.5T spinning rust drive to GPT to try it out, and found that GRUB insisted that it had to boot as if I had EFI even though my BIOS did not support it. I was forced to find a work-around.
grub-install /dev/sda does not work on my machine--all kinds of errors. Whenever I update my GRUB using update-grub, I then __must__ re-install GRUB by using grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda . The --target=i386-pc is NEEDED to install to the Legacy-GRUB partition with the newer distributions, and I have tried Arch, PCLinuxOS, SUSE, Fedora, Debian, MX Linux, Linux Mint, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Sparky Linux, and Salix, so far with similar results. Using a GRUB rescue ISO on Ventoy, I am able to get into my installed distributions, from which I may then use the sudo update-grub && sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda from a terminal to recover a working GRUB menu. If you get errors because of the --target=i386-pc , as I said in my earlier post, the folder to copy from an earlier version is /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc and there may be an i386-pc.sh file to copy as well, but I used the error message to copy it and did not record the location. Carl -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
