I did two good installs on my laptop and the prime one got some tweaks and updates done. It's quite a learning curve but I'll chew my way through it. Ran into a major problem though on a reinstall on my desktop where last year's install was not updatable as per previous comments.
Just for a heads-up ALL my computers' primary disks are all set up identically for the bottom 10 partitions:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 104447 102400 50M BIOS boot
/dev/sda2 104448 8493055 8388608 4G Linux swap
/dev/sda3 8493056 218208255 209715200 100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 218208256 427923455 209715200 100G EFI System
/dev/sda5 427923456 637638655 209715200 100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6 637638656 847353855 209715200 100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7 847353856 1057069055 209715200 100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8 1057069056 1266784255 209715200 100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9 1266784256 1476499455 209715200 100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda10 1476499456 1952552959 476053504 227G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 above is an exception, may have to do with the issue, I have no idea why it became EFI. The size of data p10 varies to remaining disk space.
Partitions 4 and 8 are since last year Artix partitions, I want them doubled until I get comfortable with them, something that could take a while. Sooooo, I formatted p4 and went with the latest plasma install DVD as I had on the laptop, I probably did NOT ask it to deploy grub boot code, instead when done I just rebooted and the existing grub code last deployed from within a Suse partition took up the task and booted it no problem. Then I did some tweaks, fixed the passwords down to what I want, installed a Firefox-derivative, edited universe into pacman.conf, issued a pacman -Sy and then pacman -Su. This last op went part way, maybe to 80% when it suddenly bombed with a message like "segfault out of disk space". Rebooted Suse, checked the spaces: the older Artix on p8 was about 9% full and the new one on p4 about 11%, leaving around 90 gigs open each. Got Suse Yast to deploy grub code again with the "probe foreign OS''es" checked as usual.
ON reboot the p9 Artix was no longer in the menu! Preparing for a manula grub boot, on looking into the /boot folder I see only
amd-ucode.img
intel-ucode.img
memtest86+
At that point, because I might still be able to salvage 3 hours of work I stopped TS and decided to post this. I can get to the p4 partition from any one of the other 6, all bootable. The p8 Artix /boot has
amd-ucode.img
initramfs-linux.img
memtest86+
initramfs-linux-fallback.img
intel-ucode.img
vmlinuz-linux
Maybe I could paste vmlinuz and initram over to p4? ,,,like for a single manual boot attempt?
TIA