On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:48:39 -0700 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo:
>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. My 11th effort also failed, but I finally got #12 to boot. It installed Grub to the / partition of the new drive so it would boot Debian, left the Xubuntu Grub alone on the old drive, and installed no Grub dual boot menus. I tried using the utility in the BIOS (hit F12 after the BIOS screen) that lists the various drives, and lets me choose which one I want to boot to. I had tried this with previous installs and all I got was a black screen with a cursor-like underscore flashing in the upper left corner. There was no mouse and the keyboard was dead, so reboot and start over. But after install #12, with no Grub dual boot menu, my F12 maneuver worked; it booted straight to Debian. Before continuing I shut down Debian and rebooted, this time choosing the Xubuntu drive, and Xubuntu came up. Yay! Who needs a Grub dual boot menu? Then I spent about eight hours configuring and installing in Debian, when I suddenly realized I needed my account number for Mullvad, my VPN, and the only way to get it was from the utility as it was running under Xubuntu, so I shut down Debian and booted to Xubuntu. When I had the account number I shut down Xubuntu and rebooted Debian. It came up, but most of my hours of work were gone. Most of the applications were still there, including Brave browser, the last thing I installed before shutting down. But the screen was plastered with about 40 icons, each for one of the tabs in Brave browser, and all my work at fixing font sizes, getting rid of default artwork, configuring apps, and more, was lost. I rebooted to Recovery mode, but there was nothing to be done. If I'm to get it working I'm going to have to make reinstallation #13 and start over from scratch. Eight hours down the drain. I wonder if it's possible to install Ubuntu and leave out the snapping turtles and flat things.
