Hi Tim,
> External USB SSD SDB
> SDB1 backup
...
> The install wiped and partitioned of my SDB (which became SDC) drive
> wiping out over 18months of backups.
...
> That will teach me to play around with a system that was working
> fine.
Don't have precious data on external drives nee
Evening all
Well the testing of LMDE went seriously wrong on Sunday.
Having been in the situation where I formatted and partitioned the wrong
drive in the past I made doubly sure that I knew where all the drivers were.
Internal SSD SDA
SDA1 root, SDA2 Home, SDA3 swap
External USB SSD SDB
SDB
So I turned everything off, unplugged the USB Harddrive, started the
laptop up, came up with the welcome to Grub screen then gave the option
of the disto on the internal hard disk or the distro on the external, I
choose the internal install and it loaded without an issue.
So I have done a litt
Hi Tim,
> So how do I confirm if I did install grub onto dev/sda for the
> installed day to day distro.
My guess:
- Turn everything off.
- Unplug the external USB drive.
- Turn the PC on.
- Expect GRUB to appear, offering your old installation.
- Select it.
- See if it boots it successfully.
>
Afternoon all on this typical wet Bank Holiday Monday.
I was going to test a new distro which I installed onto an external USB
drive. During the install I realised I did not know where the current
distro is installed. I decide to install Grub for the distro I was going
to test onto dev/sda and
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