On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 01:40:54 +0000 (UTC), Alan Grimes wrote:

> I RMA'd my normal mobo as previously discussed. 
> I went to grab my previous motherboard and it turns out that it had
> actually released a goodly chunk of it's Magic Smoke (tm) while I
> hadn't been looking.  So I went down to the Quickie Mart and grabbed a
> motherboard that was still compatible with the rusty old 1800x... The
> error was Unable to load "/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod" I had to buy some
> more USB sticks (my optical drive seems functional but will not boot
> the machine...) and used gparted to get into the partition, .........
> =((( All my .mod files were in x86_64-efi   
> >>> AND IT WAS WORKING ON THE OTHER MOTHERBOARD!!! <<<   
> =~((((((((
> Dear beloved Zardoz, what have I done to deserve your wrath??? 

Is the replacement motherboard UEFI and is t set that way in the firmware
menus?

I think Zardoz would ask why you are subjecting yourself to GRUB when you
have much simpler options with UEFI hardware.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I backed up my hard drive and ran into a bus.