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Hi everyone, I have a laptop which has been dual-booted with Linux for several years. Every so often I decide to try a different distribution and today I decided to replace my Ubuntu Mate with MX. The plan was to install MX over the top of my existing root partition and use grub to boot into the ne...

Now whenever I have made an MX-update wih the MX-updater I have to hide the package-icon manually (hide until updates are availiable). I have to do this after each update new. That's right, this function was implemented with the newer version differently, in a way that it it's hides one-time only u...

Running the dpkg-reconfigure command twice did the job - I was able to turn on the option to run os-prober automatically . Good, b/c migration from an earlier MX-21 to MX23.2, can create more complicated situations. My only confusion now is that I'm not sure where GRUB should be installed. There we...

I'd really like to hear from anyone who has had a similar problem AND HAS FOUND A (HOPEFULLY FAIRLY SIMPLE) SOLUTION! May be simple one to start with: * Open terminal as normal user and run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc you may see an option to "run os-prober automatically", if so turn i...

Thank you fehlix. Not the MX-Installer, but the kernel assigns the device names "sda" and "sdb" to the drives at every boot, freshly . Does this mean, that when I install with the configuration from the printscreen from post #1 (without exchanging the SATA ports), it can be, tha...

qed wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:25 am Did "sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade" as usual.

So you never real full upgrade the system?

qed wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:25 am Gparted only sees the usb. (/dev/sda1)

GSmartControl seeing the usb only.

Seems kind of "sudden drive death"..

Hello, The MX-Installer wants to choose my 1.8 GB HDD as "sda" and my SDD as "sdb": Zuordnung der Festplatten.png Not the MX-Installer, but the kernel assigns the device names "sda" and "sdb" to the drives at every boot, freshly. Question? Does it also take s...

> grub> ls gives (hd1,gpt3) as / Edited: grub> ls gives (hd1,gpt4) as / (rootMX21) I'm able to see the files in "grub> ls (hd1,gpt4)/boot" and "(hd1,gpt4)/boot/grub". (grub.efi in the later) > Click in Thunar to mount a partition Didn't get it. Thunar apparently showing only MX ...

> b/c grub counts hdN from 0 i.e. hd0 is sda and hd1 is sdb It seems you're right. I can navigate the usb stick (MX Live). Hence sda1. Not sure if I'm able to mount rootMX21 partition. Is it possible from MX Live? That's just one Click in Thunar to mount a partition. It may ask for a authentication...

> as the system was installed in UEFI, you would want to choose the ESP As I'm getting "couldn't find ESP. Pls create one and try again", should I choose ESP anyway? > you can navigate with the filemanager Yes, I can. I have 3 partitions: /, /home, swap. Since grub> ls gives (hd1,gpt3) as...