Some minor improvement ideas for MX

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Jerry3904
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Re: Some minor improvement ideas for MX

#31 Post by Jerry3904 »

DBeckett wrote: 
I prefer GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true". While my daily driver is at the top of the list, I may be playing with another distro. After major changes, like a kernel upgrade for instance, I like to reboot just to be sure everything's okay. I can walk away while it's rebooting and return to find it where I left it.
Yeah, as always different users tend to have different preferences. When we establish default preferences during development, we attempt to select reasonable values for the average user.
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Re: Some minor improvement ideas for MX

#32 Post by Richard »

It is curious. Possibly something else broke it.

I installed antiX-16a1 and set it to MBR,
later changed back to MX-15 via Boot Repair.

Presently at boot, grub only shows 1 boot line: MX-15
Strange. :)
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Re: Some minor improvement ideas for MX

#33 Post by v3g4n »

Richard wrote:It is curious. Possibly something else broke it.

I installed antiX-16a1 and set it to MBR,
later changed back to MX-15 via Boot Repair.

Presently at boot, grub only shows 1 boot line: MX-15
Strange. :)
I have also noticed this happen, but unfortunately didn't look into it further at the time because I was wiping that distro and expanding my home partition to fill the space. I'll have to play around with it abit more this weekend.

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Re: Some minor improvement ideas for MX

#34 Post by Richard »

I added back another boot line for another kernel of MX-15 which shows and boots
but update-grub doesn't pick up the WIN partition nor the antiX partition. Curious.

I'll leave it alone for a while to see if someone has an idea.
Well, a little while. Changed grub as follows:
# GRUB_DEFAULT="saved"
GRUB_DEFAULT="MX GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.1-7.dmz.1-686-pae (sda2)"
. . .
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="false"
# GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"

then # update-grub to see what happens?

NOTE: Same result; update-grub doesn't pick up the other installed partitions.
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Re: Some minor improvement ideas for MX

#35 Post by Richard »

@v3g4n
I have also noticed this happen, but unfortunately didn't look into it further at the time...
I too have experienced similar type confusion in the past that seemed to derive from over-zealous use of grub-customizer, but I was not sure just what configuration caused it and so, finally, reinstalled.
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