I have found a work-around for this and am posting in case any of it is helpful. This pertains only to installing on an external hard drive or partition on an internal hard drive and has most likely already been resolved...
Currently running the 18 beta1 on a T60p ThinkPad, T420 ThinkPad, and external USB 320gb Hard Drive. It seems to run flawlessly so far. Had a problem with Grub though -
Grub did not want to install to external USB HD. "Ok to install Grub bootloader at ?" - then failed. Just a question mark - no sda#. Same on a partition on internal HD. Able to boot on the internal drive because MX17.1 is the controlling grub. Could not boot from the ext USB HD - even after several tries at re-installing bootloader from MX17 USB flashdrive snapshot and original MX18 USB install media. [Hope all this is complete and makes sense]
Ran live USB install media:
Installed updates-then MX Tools-reinstall grub [to the ext HD that is missing grub]-no longer is there a question mark-tried loading grub to MBR [which I never select on Ext HD...] and then root [2 separate attempts]
-reboot each - same result:
black screen with:
GNU GRUB version2.02[tilde]beta3-5+deb9u1
Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.
grub>
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Have no idea what all the output means after tabbing:
"extract_entries_configfile extract..............."
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Made a snapshot on the fully configured installed partition - same ThinkPad T60p and installed on same external HD - no grub problem at all.
Installed T60p Snapshot on T420 ThinkPad partition. Went to MX17 partition with controlling Grub after install to configure. Have 4 partitions with antiX and 2 others with MX. MX18 partiton could not be found, until I viewed the "Removed items", and there it was.
Also, the default conky is somewhat scrambled.
Aside from Grub, I would not know it was beta. It is excellent, as usual.
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rj@mx18:~
$ inxi -Fz
System: Host: mx18 Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-18b1_x64 Continuum December 3 2018
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 8742AL9 v: ThinkPad T60p serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 8742AL9 serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 7IET30WW (1.11 )
date: 07/13/2007
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 15.4 Wh condition: 15.7/56.2 Wh (28%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 T7400 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 4096 KiB
Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/2167 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 998
Graphics: Device-1: AMD RV530/M66 GL [Mobility FireGL V5250] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: ATI RV530 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.2.6
Audio: Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network driver: iwl3945
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 327.00 GiB used: 10.69 GiB (3.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HM321HI size: 298.09 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: PNY model: USB 2.0 FD size: 28.91 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 28.71 GiB used: 7.07 GiB (24.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9
ID-2: swap-1 size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: 27.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2976
Info: Processes: 174 Uptime: 7m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 429.6 MiB (14.3%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.25
rj@mx18:~
$
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rj@mx18:~
$ inxi -Fz
System: Host: mx18 Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-18b1_x64 Continuum December 3 2018
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 42365MO v: ThinkPad T420 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 42365MO serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO
v: 83ET79WW (1.49 ) date: 09/05/2016
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 27.6 Wh condition: 27.6/47.5 Wh (58%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-2540M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 797 MHz min/max: 800/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 797 2: 797 3: 800 4: 849
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.6
Audio: Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 698.64 GiB used: 5.39 GiB (0.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST750LX003-1AC154 size: 698.64 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 38.20 GiB used: 5.39 GiB (14.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda12
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 191 Uptime: 3h 35m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 480.2 MiB (6.1%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.25
rj@mx18:~
$
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[External 320gb USB hard drive on T60p:]
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rj@mx18:~
$ inxi -Fz
System: Host: mx18 Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-18b1_x64 Continuum December 3 2018
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 8742AL9 v: ThinkPad T60p serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 8742AL9 serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 7IET30WW (1.11 )
date: 07/13/2007
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 15.4 Wh condition: 15.7/56.2 Wh (28%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 T7400 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 4096 KiB
Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/2167 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 998
Graphics: Device-1: AMD RV530/M66 GL [Mobility FireGL V5250] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: ATI RV530 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.2.6
Audio: Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network driver: iwl3945
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 596.18 GiB used: 5.24 GiB (0.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HM321HI size: 298.09 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: CLOVER CN-M320MBB E361M8E320G6N234 size: 298.09 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 280.80 GiB used: 5.24 GiB (1.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 11.80 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: 22.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 180 Uptime: 1m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 409.7 MiB (13.6%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.25
rj@mx18:~
$