new install/reinstall odd behavior

[towwire]

new install/reinstall odd behavior comments

This will be a long post. A summary of why the reinstall.
I could only boot using a usb stick NOT to the hard drive. A Bios check showed it saw all my hard drives. I have 2 partitions that had error's and fsck fix the one for my root but I could never fix the sda1 boot/esp one. I even reformatted sda1 and reinstall grub but the error seemed to always be there, when a check was done, and I could not boot to the hard drive.

So I boot to a usb that had 'pmagic' to secure erase that hard drive. At first I was told that the drive was Frozen and could not be erased, it was going to try to unfreeze it. It took 2 tries before I could do the erase, which took awhile. Smartmonitor never said the drive had any error's.

I then booted to the march snapshop (Iso was check) and did an update to make sure I had the latest installer. Used gparted to make 3 partitions, sda1-esp, sda2-root and sda3-home. This is the odd thing that happen when I closed gparted all of a sudden I was asked for the password to mount each and very partition on both hard drives, a lot of cancel's. Should note here that I had the usb boot toram (32 GiB). So used MX installer to install gparted 33 and then had it check each and every partition for error's. On closed it did the same thing.

So I then did the install to the hard drive drive and all seems to be good. I've rebooted a few times and then installed the antiX kernel which I'm using. Now I'm slowly installing the other programs and creating the partitions and files as before. One thing that works is my icons on the desktop stay put now.

Here is my system info.

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towwire@mx18.1a:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: mx18.1a Kernel: 4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 
           Distro: MX-18.1_x64 Continuum Feb 9  2019 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A v: N/A serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: F2A88X-UP4 v: x.x serial: <root required> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: F8a date: 12/14/2015 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A10-7850K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G bits: 64 
           type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           Speed: 2374 MHz min/max: 1700/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1848 2: 2021 3: 1696 
           4: 1695 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.50.0 4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 7.0.0) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 74:d4:35:57:f2:98 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 16.20 GiB (0.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1CH164 size: 1.82 TiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24.48 GiB used: 6.71 GiB (27.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-2: /home size: 48.97 GiB used: 9.49 GiB (19.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 1.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 4 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 197 Uptime: 8m Memory: 30.38 GiB used: 929.4 MiB (3.0%) Shell: bash 
           inxi: 3.0.29 
towwire@mx18.1a:~
$ 

Here is something odd besides the gparted thing.

So I ran 'GRUB_where_is-grub_installed.sh'. You can find it here:
viewtopic.php?f=104&t=47067 ..

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towwire@mx18.1a:~/Doc's/Scrips
$ sudo ./GRUB_where_is-grub_installed.sh
[sudo] password for towwire: 
/dev/ram0	No GRUB found
/dev/ram1	No GRUB found
/dev/ram2	No GRUB found
/dev/ram3	No GRUB found
/dev/ram4	No GRUB found
/dev/ram5	No GRUB found
/dev/ram6	No GRUB found
/dev/ram7	No GRUB found
/dev/ram8	No GRUB found
/dev/ram9	No GRUB found
/dev/ram10	No GRUB found
/dev/ram11	No GRUB found
/dev/ram12	No GRUB found
/dev/ram13	No GRUB found
/dev/ram14	No GRUB found
/dev/ram15	No GRUB found
----------------------------------
/dev/sda	No GRUB found
/dev/sda1	No GRUB found
/dev/sda2	No GRUB found
/dev/sda3	No GRUB found
/dev/sda4	No GRUB found
/dev/sda5	No GRUB found
/dev/sda6	No GRUB found
----------------------------------
/dev/sdb	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb1	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb2	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb3	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb4	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb5	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb6	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb7	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb8	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb9	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb10	No GRUB found
/dev/sdb11	No GRUB found
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towwire@mx18.1a:~/Doc's/Scrips
$ 

I can boot ok but where is grub??

[fehlix]

- gparted blocks automounting during it runs,
after you closed it the Thunar-automount triggers the created filesystems to open,
where you need to enter password, as you have not enabled password-less mount within mx-tweaks.

- the check-grub install script you are running is probably meant
to check for BIOS(legacy) grub-installs into the MBR.
But you are booting in UEFI-mode, so the script will not show UEFI-grub-installs.
HTH

[towwire]

- gparted blocks automounting during it runs,
after you closed it the Thunar-automount triggers the created filesystems to open,
where you need to enter password, as you have not enabled password-less mount within mx-tweaks.

- the check-grub install script you are running is probably meant
to check for BIOS(legacy) grub-installs into the MBR.
But you are booting in UEFI-mode, so the script will not show UEFI-grub-installs.
HTH

The triggers of the filesystems happen while booted to the usb and it does not happen when I boot usb pmagic gparted, not sure version it uses. Or I boot a usb gparted drive.

As far as where grub is, before I redid the system it show grub as sda2-root on UEFI. I guess it's not a big deal as long as everything works. Just letting you know. Also as noted it is an MX script.

Thanks for the reply.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

This will show your UEFI boot entries and the full paths to the loaders:

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# efibootmgr -v

Re-installing GRUB in a UEFI system requires that the EFI system partition be mounted; if it is mounted somewhere other than /boot/efi then the --efi-directory flag must be used to direct GRUB to the ESP.

[fehlix]

As far as where grub is ....

ESP is short for EFI System Partition: GRUB-EFI bootloader gets installed onto this ESP.

[Klare Sache und damit hopp]