Can MX Boot Repair be used to fix other distros?  [Solved]

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CyberGhost
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Can MX Boot Repair be used to fix other distros?

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Hi I was wondering can MX Boot Repair be used to fix other distros bootloader or only MX? I mean like if you booted MX in live mode with a USB flash drive on another distro?
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Re: Can MX Boot Repair be used to fix other distros?  [Solved]

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I think it would work if the distro uses GRUB (I mean there are many other options for boot loaders), it runs pretty vanilla commands like grub-install and update-grub (I think these might be available as such only in Debian/Ubuntu family of distro, these are links that are missing in other distros). Also if you boot from ESP it might change the name of the entry to "MX-19"
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Re: Can MX Boot Repair be used to fix other distros?

#3 Post by richb »

I just used grub-install to recover grub being overwritten by Kubuntu. It overwrites MX's grub every time I boot to it. (which is not often).

PS @Adrian
Thanks for reminding me of that command. I have been searching for it for a few days. Surprisingly, or not, it was not listed in any of the grub manuals I looked at.
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