Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 Dec 2021 at 10:56:29 (+0100), fran...@libero.it wrote: > unfortunately, nothing David suggested worked, Yes, that happens, usually because the initial conditions were different from those assumed. Eg, Grub could have been in a different state, as the commands I was using are typically

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 Dec 2021 at 11:56:08 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 10:56:29AM +0100, fran...@libero.it wrote: > > unfortunately, nothing David suggested worked, so I finally set it on in > > the bios Legacy (via F12) and then reinstalled Debian. > > > > Now if I turn on,

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-06 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 12/6/21 1:56 AM, fran...@libero.it wrote: Hello, unfortunately, nothing David suggested worked, so I finally set it on in the bios Legacy (via F12) and then reinstalled Debian. Now if I turn on, Grub appears with Debian that starts (even if it takes a while to boot) and if I want to

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 10:56:29AM +0100, fran...@libero.it wrote: > Hello, > > unfortunately, nothing David suggested worked, so I finally set it on in the > bios Legacy (via F12) and then reinstalled Debian. > > Now if I turn on, Grub appears with Debian that starts (even if it takes a >

Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-06 Thread frantal
Hello, unfortunately, nothing David suggested worked, so I finally set it on in the bios Legacy (via F12) and then reinstalled Debian. Now if I turn on, Grub appears with Debian that starts (even if it takes a while to boot) and if I want to use Windows, at boot, I have to click F12 and

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Dec 2021 at 12:22:45 (+0100), fran...@libero.it wrote: > I was unable to install Grub. Via ‘rescue mode’ of installation cd, it > doesn't make me do it; takes me to the partitioning window. Then I did a > reboot which gave me a screenshot > error: file ‘/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod’

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 12:22:45PM +0100, fran...@libero.it wrote: > > Hi, > I was unable to install Grub. Via ‘rescue mode’ of installation cd, it > doesn't make me do it; takes me to the partitioning window. Then I did a > reboot which gave me a screenshot > error: file

Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-03 Thread frantal
Hi, I was unable to install Grub. Via ‘rescue mode’ of installation cd, it doesn't make me do it; takes me to the partitioning window. Then I did a reboot which gave me a screenshot error: file ‘/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod’ not found. On: grub rescue>ls (hd0) (hd0,gpt8) (hd0,gpt7)

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Dec 2021 at 22:01:29 (+), Joe wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:29:31 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > > > This thread seems to have gone down a rabbit-hole. > > > > $ aptitude why os-prober > > i grub-common Recommends os-prober (>= 1.33) > > $ > > > > It has stretched the minds of

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Dec 2021 at 09:50:06 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Joe wrote: > > I've never seen a legacy installation on GPT. It might help if people pasted output into their posts, rather than paraphrasing it so that we have to do the work to figure out its meaning. > It is suspicious that the

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Joe
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:29:31 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > This thread seems to have gone down a rabbit-hole. > > $ aptitude why os-prober > i grub-common Recommends os-prober (>= 1.33) > $ > > It has stretched the minds of people here to work out how to > make the d-i /avoid/ installing

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Dec 2021 at 19:30:20 (+), Joe wrote: > On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:08:25 + Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 15:52 +, Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > > > > > > To be honest, I don't know exactly what the installer does, if

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Joe
On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:08:25 + Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 15:52 +, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > > > > To be honest, I don't know exactly what the installer does, if it > > > finds another OS. > > > > How would it do that?

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 15:52 +, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > > To be honest, I don't know exactly what the installer does, if it finds > > another OS. > > How would it do that? Detecting other OS's is what the os-prober > package is for.

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > Am 02.12.21 um 09:26 schrieb Joe: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:44:47 +0100 > > Christian Britz wrote: > > > > > Joe wrote: > > > > measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on > > > > its menu. > > > > > >

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Christian Britz
Am 02.12.21 um 09:26 schrieb Joe: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:44:47 +0100 > Christian Britz wrote: > >> Joe wrote: >>> measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on >>> its menu. >> >> IIRC, you have to install package os-prober to achieve that. >> > > Is that how the

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 10:37:38AM +0100, fran...@libero.it wrote: > How to install os-prober? apt install os-prober > I think I have to be able to boot Debian first to be able to install it later. > > Right? Yes. Either boot Debian natively, or boot some sort of rescue system, mount the

Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread frantal
Hello, yes HD is 1TB and Debian partition is 300GB (not Mb). Currently Windows starts directly without reporting other OSes present. So should I use the installation disk in "rescue mode" and reinstall Grub to Debian's / partition (27.94 GiB dev/sda6)? How to install os-prober? I think I

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joe wrote: > I've never seen a legacy installation on GPT. It is suspicious that the partition table has both, a GRUB2 legacy BIOS partition and an EFI partition: > > dev / sda1 EFI system partition         (fat32) 100 MiB > > dev / sda5 grub2 core.img                      1.00 MiB The

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Joe
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:44:47 +0100 Christian Britz wrote: > Joe wrote: > > measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on > > its menu. > > IIRC, you have to install package os-prober to achieve that. > Is that how the installer behaves now? It really doesn't care

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Joe
On Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:15:58 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > fran...@libero.it wrote: > > > Now looking at it with Gparted the HD is divided as follows: > > > ... > > > dev / sda5 grub2 core.img 1.00 > > > MiB > > Joe wrote: > > I've never seen a

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-01 Thread Christian Britz
Joe wrote: > measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on its > menu. IIRC, you have to install package os-prober to achieve that.

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, fran...@libero.it wrote: > > Now looking at it with Gparted the HD is divided as follows: > > ... > > dev / sda5 grub2 core.img 1.00 MiB Joe wrote: > I've never seen a 'grub2 core.img' before. Maybe someone else knows > what this is. Probably

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-01 Thread Joe
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 18:18:48 +0100 (CET) fran...@libero.it wrote: > I have installed Debian 11 on a Dell T1650 Desktop PC (i7 & 24 GB > RAM). > > I resized the 1GB HD leaving 300MB on which I installed Debian. 1TB? 300GB? > > At the request of the installation of Grub I indicated the HD. > >

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-01 Thread Christian Britz
Whats the exact problem? GRUB does not show up and Windows boots directly? You could try the rescue mode of the installer to reinstall GRUB, reFind is normally not needed on a PC system to dual boot with Windows. Once you get GRUB up and running, you should consider installing the package

Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-01 Thread frantal
I have installed Debian 11 on a Dell T1650 Desktop PC (i7 & 24 GB RAM). I resized the 1GB HD leaving 300MB on which I installed Debian. At the request of the installation of Grub I indicated the HD. Now looking at it with Gparted the HD is divided as follows: dev / sda1 EFI system partition