BTW thanks @jglen490 for all your assistance.
Phew
Glad you got that sorted,
@jglen490
Now for the drum roll.
Hey, Djarin, guess what? I boo-booed.
I love it when I make a mistake (does that sound weird? Welcome to Wizard's life
)
... because I learn from it, and try not to make the same mistake more than about (arbitrary figure) 3 times, for example marriages.
I don't mind egg on face, because I love the taste of eggs.
So the upshot of it is, that I was mistaken about what
ubiquity -b
does, at least in the case of EOS, and I will have to investigate further with a couple more distros.
I try to minimise my risk of mistakes, often, by trying to duplicate the circumstances of the Member/user, and then be confident of recommending a solution.
In the case of ubiquity -b, I
knew of it for years, but had not actually had occasion to try it.
That is why I recommended it to you as a solution to getting EOS up and running, given your install was falling over at the Grub install part.
As mentioned earlier
I have got to a point where on a spare machine I have run Timeshift snapshots on the 3 Distros which were on it, and am about to embark on installing EOS using ubiquity -b and work from there.
I have now completed that exercise and used ubiquity -b to install EOS as the sole OS on that machine.
It works fine, and I have Grub installed and a Grub Menu, now.
If you want to try it with the Acer again, and you are under no obligation or pressure to do so, just sing out and I'll put it together for you.
Other than that, I can wait a day or 3, then put the details in this Thread, or I can make a separate How To on it for others, but I would rather test it with a few more Distros to be accurate in that regard.
Let us know your choice.
Cheers
Wizard