Article 4QW31 Broken Grub startup after latest Sep. 2019 snapshot installation ...

Broken Grub startup after latest Sep. 2019 snapshot installation ...

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This is pretty weird. I've been making my own custom German language snapshot installations of MX Linux for the past couple of years. Never a problem until today, with the very latest snapshot that I just set up for myself on September 19th. So creating the snapshot itself went without a hitch, like always.

When I went to install that snapshot on another system, the snapshot booted up just fine by selecting the hardware multi-boot (USB) option from the start screen. The MX live system then booted up like it's supposed to, the install icon appeared on the screen as it should, and after clicking the install icon, the installation started. This is where things then changed a bit.

Although there was a progress bar at the top of the installation window, there was also in addition to that a GRUB configuration option located further down on that very same window (which normally appears later), and to make matters even more confusing, the NEXT or CONTINUE button at the bottom of that window was ready to be klicked on right away, even though it was clearly obvious by looking at the progress bar that the instalallation of the snapshot had just started.

So I waited for awhile and when the progress bar got to the 94% mark it suddenly turned into a text message, something to the effect of ... Installation paused due to waiting on user input. Umh, ah, WHAT USER INPUT ???

Was I supposed to klick on continue ... even thogh the snapshot installation had clearly just started ??? That didn't make any sense to me at all. Regardless, now it wasn't a matter of choice anymore, so I klicked on next. The progress bar returned, eventually completing as it should, followed by providing a screen message about restarting the machine upon completion of the installation. All done, so I rebooted the machine ... and ended up with a black start screen which only had GRUB> on it with a flashing cursor.

No matter what I tried, I couldn't get the system to provide me with a working bootable screen. I even used a boot-repair disk which I had used on a clients system just a couple of weeks earlier. That didn't fix the problem either. Tried a second installation from scratch, sat by the screen to see if I missed something the first time around, but no ... exactly the same as before ... eventually installation completed ... followed by a reboot ... and then the black screen with GRUB> and the flashing cursor.

I'm at a loss !!!

Without actually installing the snapshot on the USB stick, everything else on that stick works fine and it boots without a problem as it should. Any thoughts or ideas why I'm ending up with a black / grub screen? Thanks.

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