mhbell Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) I have been downloading and installing Distros to the second SSD disk in my computer to test and try them out. At the time I had 6 Different ones installed to the second SSD Disk. I have Disk one which is P-1, and Disk 2 which is P-2 in the Bios. I downloaded and installed "Deepin" to try it out. I installed it on P-2 and thought I told it to install grub to P-2 /dev/sdb2 which is the EFI partition on SSD disk P-2 I use Mint Grub on SSD disk P-1 to boot all OS's. When I booted up I found that "Deepin" had put Grub in the EFI partition of P-1 instead of P-2. To get rid of it I reinstalled my mint grub that I use to boot everything using the Code "sudo grub-install /dev /sda2" which is the efi partition on the SSD disk on P-1 it said succeeded no errors. I then did a "sudo update-grub" and rebooted. When I booted up "Deepins" grub came up. The only way I could get rid of it was to Use gparted to remove it from the SSD disk p-2, and do a grub update and re-install grub to the efi partition on SSD disk P-1. That did the trick, but am wondering if that was a fluke or something that Deepin does on purpose. Deepin comes from china. No I am not paranoid just wondering. BTW Deepins desktop and GUI is completly different, but you can still use apt and the command line. Mel Edited March 1, 2017 by mhbell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) I tried an install of Deepin to my Windows 10 VirtualBox. It warned me that this was not a good idea and that I should install it on the rails. I went ahead and it installed OK. I was even able to get the Guest Additions working. However the update and upgrade from the command line was massive - 928 packages. It prompted me to reinstall grub halfway through the upgrade and then wouldn't accept my selection of the MBR on the virtual disk. Eventually the display crashed and I wasn't able to complete the upgrade. Doesn't look that stable to me. Well I can't say that it didn't warn me. Edited March 1, 2017 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) Tried a second install and update and after the update added the Guest Additions. It seems to be working OK now. But I don't think it would be my go to distro. If anyone else is going to try it, edit the sources.list file to put in a mirror that isn't in China. There are a couple in the US and one in Canada. Otherwise updates are painfully slow. Here is the VBox screen. Edited March 2, 2017 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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