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Wow! Thanks AndyMH; that worked like a charm. I can now run the VM from either partition. This is better than I thought was possible. I tried the same fix for a related situation on my MacBook Pro8,2. The identical VM folders are on two separate shared Data drives, one formatted NTFS and the other e...

G'day folks On and off for a while now I have been playing around with, and gradually building up a little understanding of, the magic of VMs with Virtualbox, in my LM XFCE installatiions. These are low powered machines with only dual core processors and 4GB of RAM (see signature below), but they ru...

Thanks xenopeek I was unable to boot into either partition, as grub in the new partition controls boot, and is set to boot into the old partition, which I don't have the password for. However, one of the current topics in this forum allowed me to again find the tutorial by pbear on (re)installing gr...

G'day folks I was trying to access an LM21.1XFCE installation I set up on an old HP15 laptop for a user who has forgotten her password. Can't get grub menu to show, whatever I do, so can't use the traditional hack via grub to reset the password. I therefore installed another partition and another LM...

G'day again folks I have gone back over some of my posts and tried to edit parts of them to make them more clear. Apologies for trying to explain so much detail in these posts. It helps me to understand it all better, and hopefully might be useful for someone else on a similar exploratory journey. I...

Thanks Pulegium I had a look at the rEFInd website linked to from the Software Manager. There is a lot of detail in it about how to set it up, which is a little daunting. Is it supposed to be able to just work out itself how to install itself directly from the Software Manager, or are there particul...

Thanks Reddog1 I would prefer not to get into another bootloader at this time, particularly if there are examples of other MBPros where the GRUB menu is visible at boot, which I am hoping others will chime in about! I am wondering more about the graphics fix, and whether it may have some impact here...

G'day again folks Reporting back on new modified backup setup, which generated some more questions about how backintime works, as below. The TL;DR is that there was another failure of a new BiT initial snapshot of "archive" data; data which I have been storing for a long time, and which ra...

G'day again folks [Minor EDITING of this post to improve clarity.] I tried experimenting with the LM 20.1 XFCE partition on my main machine, to verify that copying and restoring TS snapshots was viable. My experience as outlined below suggests it is not, despite others indicating it can work in the ...

G'day again folks Some further playing around with efibootmgr and grub, and exploring the /boot/efi location has not produced a solution, but maybe some interesting effects that someone more cluey about boot matters may pick up on. efibootmgr does not hold its settings after reboot as noted above. I...

Thanks Daisuke Not sure I want to be a trailblazer; nobody to tell me for sure that what I am doing won't work. However, I appreciate your interest, and feedback, although my level of knowledge is not high enough to understand it all. The text from Tony George you quoted seems to be talking about th...

Thanks Daisuke Apologies if my OP was not clear. Yes, both backup drives are external USB drives formatted ext4, on GPT partitions. As in my reply to mikeflan above, I am wondering if it is possible to rescue the large complete backup of backups. If my experience with exploring the intricacies of ba...

Thanks mikeflan Apologies if my OP was not clear. The problem is with the initial backup, not just with a restore. I can manually restore from the backup, via Thunar, but not via the backintime GUI. The "backup" folder is there in the "new_snapshot" folder, containing what seems ...

G'day folks [This OP EDITED to improve clarity] Just wondering if anyone knows how to get the backintime program to recognize an initial backintime snapshot which is showing as failed in its backup folder, and not present in the main GUI window, but which is in fact complete and accessible via Thuna...

Thanks Reddog1 I adjusted my grub file to comment out the same line, updated and re-installed grub as below, but no difference. I put grub back to my original. frank@MBPLM203XFCE:~$ sudo -H xed /etc/default/grub [sudo] password for frank: ** (xed:2442): WARNING **: 11:15:55.345: Set document metadat...

Thanks HAWR Yes, the fatal error showed up again: frank@MBALM203XFCE:~/Downloads/a2f85e3420ae7d0f64db2274a9bc106b-407ad2574928bb8fcfd166d2c88db33f26da670d$ sudo ./99-install-facetime-camera.sh [sudo] password for frank: Installing FacetimeHD camera for 5.4.0-109-generic Cloning into 'facetimehd-firm...

G'day folks Is there any way to get the grub menu to show at boot on a MacBook Pro8, 2 (15 inch, early 2012). I have LM20.3XFCE dual booted with MacOSX, and grub file set to: GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu, and nomodeset added because of the failure of the main graphics card: (GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=&q...

G'day folks Not unexpectedly, after an update of the kernels, the facetimeHD fix has been wiped out. However, the fix was simply to re-run the script. I did it only for the new 5.4.0-109 kernel, not the 5.13.0-40 new kernel, nor the old 5.4.0-26 kernel. This confirmed that the fix is required for ea...

Thanks HAWR The camera is still working in all kernels, through multiple normal reboots, so the fix appears stable. I have confirmed via capturing with my iPhone that the fleeting boot text additions each boot splash are related to the facetimeHD setting up. Whether it survives the next kernel updat...

Bingo! The git package was the missing piece. The script completed with the 5.4.0-26 kernel, with a couple of errors, but reached "Install complete" at the end.. I turned the machine off, unplugged the power lead and held down the Power button for at least 10 seconds before reconnecting an...