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On 15/08/2020 16:44, comrade meowski wrote:
How old is the MX Linux iso you're trying to boot?
It is from when MX 19 first came out. The Grub issue was a
properly messy one involving revoked certificates and a bodged fix so it's entirely possible for the effected machine you'll need a brand new download of the current live/installer image on their website. Try that first.
Will try that if all else fails. Thanks.
If that doesn't work either then try another distro's live boot instead to see if that boots.
I think I have a Linux Lite USB one somewhere.
To save writing multiple one-shot images to individual USB drives do yourself a favour and set up Ventoy first on a relatively large thumbdrive or even a spare USB hard drive if you have one. Once the drive is setup you can just dump multiple install images in a directory and then choose which one to boot at start up.https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Never heard of it. Will have a look.
Don't worry if your laptop still won't boot properly, it might need a firmware reset as well/instead.Funnily enough the bug seems to only (?) hit BIOS systems and not UEFI ones. Might be worth accessing the laptop's firmware just to confirm what the settings are.When you last did an upgrade do you remember seeing an interactive prompt popping up and asking you mid-install about reinstalling the bootloader and asking you to confirm which disk by the way? If you use a GUI to do your software upgrades it may not have shown as it does in a terminal.
I always update using the terminal, as you once suggested to me long ago. No, I do not remember any messages like that, but then I was not really paying much attention. Lesson learned,
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