On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 13:48, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> So far I've done this ten times. Only once was I actually able to boot
> to Debian. And sitting in front of my new Debian I spent several hours
> installing and configuring, which included deleting all the hundreds of
> Thai fonts (Why?), which ended with Synaptic deleting half the OS. It
> wouldn't run, nor would it reboot, so back to the drawing board.
>
> This morning I followed some suggestions from a user on the Debian
> forums which ended with sudo update-grub. That command edited
> grub.cfg in the new Debian / folder as well as grub.cfg in the Xubuntu
> / folder, and now I no longer even get the (useless) menu; it just boots
> straight to Xubuntu.
>
> I'm ready for install number 11, but at the end where it sets up grub I
> need someone sitting behind me to tell me how, because it is clear that
> I do not know how.
>
Do you go by John? Or Jason?
I might have met you at a few PLUG meetings.
You’ve done anenormous amount of work on this. I’m sorry it’s giving you so
much trouble. I recommend you adjust your goals.
Don’t try to have one drive be able to boot to the other drive. When you are
installing on one of them, have the other one removed or unplugged. That way
you can select the one you want from the bios boot menu.
As long as each drive’s grub boot loader does not learn about the Linux install
on the other drive and automatically try to make a boot entry for it, I think
you’ll be fine.
