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[firenice03]

Ok so the beat goes on.. I tried at least 3 times to install last night... Since Mint installed I assumed LL should as well in a similar fashion...

I used a second card thinking maybe I could copy/image Mint's EFI partition from the 1st to the LL EFI partition..
(This was a thought, not sure if possible)
1st attempt at install - straight through, used the installer - failed same way as every other time...
I thought since Grub is broke why not just try reinstall it...

So I looked over the forums here and google..
Mostly all options pointed to mounting root and boot partitions from the LiveUSB and updating/installing grub..

I'm going to list the steps and errors/messages as best I recall - I had screen shots but forgot to move them from the Live environment.. oops - it was late  :

Following the direction from:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/insta.../#msg14247

I tried

Code:

sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdX

It attempted to install grub but the i386 version in which failed with a "blocks" error message. I knew it would fail = wrong architecture, thought maybe it would see which version I needed and install appropriate (it was a shot)

The I attempted various attempts to install "grub-efi-amd64" using apt-get commands..
I was prompted to install (a 3 packages and some dependencies) and would use 'XX'kb space..
Prompted they were not verified (I think) and continued..
Then it appeared as if it was connecting to the repo's but failed as it couldn't connect (although internet was connected)..
Ultimately unmounted all and rebooted... - still as expected it didn't boot.

So I googled a bit more and thought I'd reinstall once more (if anything wiping out what I had attempted).
Install process went the same way except this time it hung on installing 'grub2' (typically it failed within 5 mins) it hung for a solid 20minutes.. Then it carried on, continued through configuring grub/checking for other OS's through to the end.
Rebooted and like magic LL loaded.

Not sure - what or why...
I plan to reinstall again on the original card as well as 'final' card after more testing...