On 25/09/2020 10:58, C Wills wrote: > Hi All > Update on my problems when upgrading Mint 19.3 to Mint 20. > > Thank you all for your help, I tried most suggestions and finally, > yesterday, got everything working. > > Ralph: Thank you for all our suggestions and I tried to follow the > last set, and failed (later found I'd made a spelling mistake!!). > > I did manage to recover all my data files to the separate disk but did > not need them in the end (now stored safely, just in case). > > After many attempts to upgrade I've come to the conclusion that the > upgrade DVD is faulty, as that always failed. > During one recovery attempt (back to 19.3) it repartitioned the SDA > disc and added a EFI partition, as well as the OS (19.3). It replaced > sda1 & 2 with the efi (fat32) and OS partition(ext4), it deleted the > Swop but did not touch sda3 or 4. The efi/OD partitions ended up at > sad5&6, no sda2 or swop. > Don't understand why or how but it all works! > > I'll have to wait till I can get a 'proper' Mint 20 disc before trying > again. Must have tried 6 or 7 times to upgrade hence the thinking > it's a DVD copy problem as at no time did it get passed the loss of > efi problem; even after having a separate efi/fat32 partition. > Thanks again for all the help, it kept me trying! :-)
Glad you got it back in working condition. I would suggest you try a package based upgrade - this is what they announced on linuxmint.com as working, as it has worked on three different computers for me. That might yield more success. Hamish
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