Andrei, et al -- ...and then Andrei Borzenkov said... % On 24.10.2022 13:23, David T-G wrote: % > % > I'm finally back, and so I've popped bootinfoscript onto my rescue thumb % > drive and run it. Pasted below my signature is the RESULTS1.txt file. I % % I wanted to comment on it, but it is not included in reply because you made Oops. And here I thought I was being clever by taking care of future clutter ... :-/ % it signature. So TLDR - it sounds like core.img was overwritten on % /boot/gub2/i386-pc. May be it was deleted when new file was generated but % information in MBR was not updated. Oho! How interesting. Sooooo ... How do I fix that? I wonder if boot to rescue -> mount root under /tmp -> chroot -> grub2 -magic -fixarg is what I need. % ... % > % > Meanwhile, I even tried a clean install to the mirrors on sde and it % > STILL doesn't boot. Weird ... % % I do not understand what "it" refers to in the last sentence. grub on sda? % "New clean install on sde"? "It" is diskfarm, the computer in question. I had hoped that a fresh install on the new drive would result in a working system. It didn't :-/ Thanks again :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt