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   Jack Fearnley to Jack Fearnley   
   Re: Problem with Grub or SSD   
   27 Jan 20 04:28:33   
   
   From: jack@alcor.concordia.ca   
      
   On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:15:35 +0000, Jack Fearnley wrote:   
      
      
   >   
   > Thanks Paul and Bit Twister for your prompt replies.   
   > I have come up with a workaround for now.  I have loaded the Grub from   
   > the experimental (19.10) system into the MBR and this seems to work.   
   >   
   > Paul, you may be right about its being a graphics problem. When I booted   
   > from recovery mode the "settings/details" menu said the graphics was   
   > LLVM.   
   > With the new boot it says NV117. I guess Nv117 is Nvidia but I don't   
   > know what LLVM is.   
   >   
   > Jack   
   >   
   Just a minor correction. The difference in graphic driver from llvmpipe   
   (LLVM 9.0, 256 bits) to NV117 is simply the difference between recovery   
   mode and normal mode. I guess the recovery mode bypasses Nvidia and   
   substitutes something more stable.   
      
   Jack   
      
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