On both I had to reboot on the rescue USB to re-install grub, due to:
error: symbol 'grub_file_filters' not found.
In both cases, I fixed it by booting on a 19.10 USB key, then on the terminal (from memory):sudo mount /dev/<my_root_partition> /mnt
sudo grub_install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
Managing to boot from the USB dongle was the most difficult part. I first tried with an SD card in a card reader, that never worked. Then I used a USB dongle and it was better. On the BIOS in kid2, you actually want to select boot from HDD not from USB (because it will see the USB dongle as an additional HDD). Not sure that was the case on WS1.
The 19.10 "rescue" CD was almost unusable on kid2. It boots into Xorg but with the radeon the display is pretty fu*ked up, almost unreadable.