Had to downgrade from LMcinnamon 19.2 back to 19.1 due to cinnamon crashes (I found an rsync image after all) using timeshift from a 19.2 live USB in fallback mode (cinnamon crashes with that also -boo). However then I couldn't boot. The grub menu still showed the various 19.2 options without 19.1 as before downgrade and none of those would work of course. I believe this is owing to having a multi-boot system with Manjaro KDE being the last to be quite recently added which therefore likely owns the boot sector. I had to boot into Manjaro (very nice OS) and updated grub from there which then allowed me to see and boot LM19.1 (with all 19.2 gone)
1. Is there a way to configure timeshift while restoring so that doesn't happen?
2. So how do I re-own the boot sector so I can update grub from LM19.1? I've done it before elsewhere but I forget
Thanks!
Disk info follows, current LM19.1 is on sda5
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sudo fdisk -l
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 257880063 256829440 122.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 970078208 976771071 6692864 3.2G Linux swap
/dev/sda4 504641536 504643583 2048 1M BIOS boot
/dev/sda5 504643584 970078207 465434624 222G Linux filesystem
fun@fun2:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 122.5G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 3.2G 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 1M 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 222G 0 part /
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom