That link is really interesting. I've always used an unencrypted /boot. But that's not my issue here.
ok, I'll try the boot-repair utility. My friend is getting impatient.
Yes, the EFI partition is the first partition on the win10 disk. I'm currently wondering if I can move that around without invalidating the win10 license. (I had already shrunk the win10 partition (w/o problems), so I have extra space.) And my current main system is NOT a UEFI but the grub script uses UUID's to name the partitions to boot in each menu choice. So I guess I'm a GPT system.
So I built a separate test system on a leftover disk where the whole disk was encrypted lvm. And I tried to put the /boot on an external thumb drive. I could not get it to work.(?) But it works fine if the /boot partition is first on the encrypted lvm drive. And even more confusing, I can boot my main system FROM THAT SAME THUMBDRIVE (in a different menu choice). I don't understand how that can be. (maybe I should cut/paste?)
Ok, you talked me into it. I'll start playing with boot-repair.
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