Re: [SOLVED] Grub: How to move an item at the top

2025-09-18 Thread Franco Martelli
Thank you very much for the hint, I've solved changing the following line in "/etc/default/grub" : … GRUB_DEFAULT="1>2" … it helped me also the popular ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Changing_the_default_menu_entry Kind regards. -- Franco Martelli

Re: Grub: How to move an item at the top

2025-09-17 Thread Felix Miata
z" symlink does > not point to "/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.43": ... 1-Make a unique symlink to the kernel you want at the top, e.g. vmlinuz-fm. 2-copy /etc/grub.d/40_custom to /etc/grub.d/06_custom 3-put a Grub stanza in 06_custom that loads your selected kernel by its symlink Stanzas in

Grub: How to move an item at the top

2025-09-17 Thread Franco Martelli
-2_amd64.deb" using "dpkg -i" the issue is that Grub doesn't set my customized kernel image at the top of the list of all possible bootable kernel images: ~# update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
ith https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-13.1.0-amd64-standard.iso whether it boots up to a GRUB screen. (This is the smallest Debian Live ISO, which has no graphical desktop.) Why i ask: I do not see the workaround in debian-live-13.1.0-amd64-standard.iso . Its

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-07 Thread Will Senn
errily applying my fix to the iso. As it turns out, I "fix" the already fixed iso. Apparently, the developers did address it! Thanks, Will On 9/7/25 7:26 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, while digging further in direction of Debian installation ISOs i came to these lines in /boot

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-07 Thread Will Senn
Good idea. I didn’t know how to raise it. I’ll try the note to the other folks later this afternoon. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 7, 2025, at 9:40 AM, Thomas Schmitt > > If i were affected then i would write short, polite mails to > grub-de...@gnu.org > pkg-gr

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, while digging further in direction of Debian installation ISOs i came to these lines in /boot/grub/grub.cfg of debian-13.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso : # Added as a workaround for #1110759 echo "Loading bootloader..." terminal_output gfxterm This is another bug number but als

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, first of all, congrats to your success. Nate Bargmann wrote: > > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051832 Will Senn wrote: > The reporter did some magic with [echo ""] to his grub files. Alban Browaeys wrote there at 15 Mar 2025: I nailed down tha

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-06 Thread Will Senn
OK. Thanks Nate for the steer. I didn't really understand why it's not been fixed, but it's fixable: Based on the bug report, some race condition, when solar flares excite the ionisphere or something like that. The reporter did some magic with [echo ""] to his gru

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi Will. Seems to be a UEFI issue on some devices with the later version of GRUB. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051832 - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://w

black screen on installer grub menu

2025-09-06 Thread Will Senn
tarts - depending on which iso and what the default menu item is. Other items can be selected using the arrow keys and pressing enter, including the advanced sub menu, and it's submenus. It's just that the grub menus are MIA and I'm left to look up what the menu is supposed to look like,

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > the UEFI spec also > requires that implementations support MBR-partitioned disks for the > ESP. [...] > While UEFI implementations can be buggy, I don't think I've seen one > yet that doesn't cope with this section. Isn't such a bug in some old EFI the reason why the

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: > >I'm coming up short finding the authority on this, but I'm pretty sure there >is no >such thing as booting from an ESP that isn't on a GPT-partitioned disk, with >correct type assigned. I think the ESP type is technically at least a 4byte >value >not supported by M

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-21 Thread David Wright
ly. So I backed up /home, used gparted to > > > change > > > the disk from MBR to GPT (which blew away the partition table), > > > installed Windoze (which took the whole disk without asking), > > > shrank it > > > using gparted, installed Debian 13, restor

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-21 Thread Van Snyder
the partition table), > > installed Windoze (which took the whole disk without asking), > > shrank it > > using gparted, installed Debian 13, restored /home — and it didn't > > boot. So I reinstalled Debian 13 and the grub installer figured out > > how > >

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Christensen
27;t boot. So I reinstalled Debian 13 and the grub installer figured out how to set up booting correctly. It only took me about twelve hours. I am glad it worked out for you. :-) David

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread Van Snyder
utomagically. So I backed up /home, used gparted to change the disk from MBR to GPT (which blew away the partition table), installed Windoze (which took the whole disk without asking), shrank it using gparted, installed Debian 13, restored /home — and it didn't boot. So I reinstalled Debian 13 a

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Aug 2025 at 11:04:01 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > >> When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and > > >> skipped: > >

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Christensen
On 8/20/25 03:04, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to GPT without blowing away the partition table. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread Anssi Saari
-to-uefi/ The steps are roughly, use gdisk to convert the drive, then there's a lengthy op to do Windows and then Linux, which amounts to installing grub-efi in a chroot and not much more, if you don't want secure boot. No destruction of partitions or data. I had one issue with Debian, reg

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread debian-user
David Christensen wrote: > On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > >> When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and > >> skipped: > > > > When I bought the Dell Latitude E5470 it came with Windoze 10 on an > > MBR dis

Re: CPU support (was: UEFI grub install fails)

2025-08-19 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 21:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Van Snyder composed on 2025-08-19 16:30 (UTC-0700): > > > MS says Windoze 11 isn't > > supported on Intel i5 > > I suspect this is inaccurate. What I believe may be that Win11 is not > supported on > the particular i5 tested for support. I

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/08/2025 03:51, Van Snyder wrote: Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to GPT without blowing away the partition table. I have seen this one: -g, --mbrtogpt Convert an MBR or BSD disklabel disk to a GPT disk. As a s

Re: CPU support (was: UEFI grub install fails)

2025-08-19 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2025-08-19 16:30 (UTC-0700): > MS says Windoze 11 isn't > supported on Intel i5 I suspect this is inaccurate. What I believe may be that Win11 is not supported on the particular i5 tested for support. # inxi -SC System: Host: ab250 Kernel: 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 arch: x86

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread David Wright
t; And it doesn't appear in the grub menu even though I set > "DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false before running update-grub. I think that's > because the disk is MBR, Debian is nonetheless booted as UEFI, and > Windoze 10 wasn't installed UEFI (it was installed when I got the >

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 18:58 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Van Snyder composed on 2025-08-19 13:51 (UTC-0700): > > > Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR > > to > > GPT without blowing away the partition table. > > https://paste.opensuse.org/bba107b4b4f3 shows the partit

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread Van Snyder
fter updating the Dell Latitude E5470 BIOS from 1.19.3 to 1.34.3 so it would boot Debian 13. And it doesn't appear in the grub menu even though I set "DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false before running update-grub. I think that's because the disk is MBR, Debian is nonetheless booted as

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2025-08-19 13:51 (UTC-0700): > Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to > GPT without blowing away the partition table. https://paste.opensuse.org/bba107b4b4f3 shows the partitioner I've been using to do virtually all table writes here for roughl

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread David Christensen
On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and skipped: When I bought the Dell Latitude E5470 it came with Windoze 10 on an MBR disk — and without installation media and product codes.

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and skipped: When I bought the Dell Latitude E5470 it came with Windoze 10 on an MBR disk — and without installation media and product codes. I shrank it and installed Debian. Sorr

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread David Christensen
On 8/18/25 15:41, Felix Miata wrote: Device Boot StartEndSectors Size Id Type ... /dev/nvme0n1p4 64874494 2000408575 1935534082 922.9G 5 Extended ... /dev/nvme0n1p8 *193429504 1945456631116160 545M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) When my eyes saw 9 partitions,

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 10:10 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >   "This field shall not be used by UEFI firmware." > In practice, some EFI implementations interpret this "shall not" as > "must not" and refuse to use such a partition entry. In ISO standardese, "shall [not]" is a requirement [prohibition

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, some remarks in hindsight about UEFI specs in regard to partitions: The UEFI specs can be found at https://uefi.org/specifications with 2.11 being the current version (they generall stay backwards compatible). See especially https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.11/05_GUID_Partition_Table_Format

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread Van Snyder
it can't > boot if it somehow finds itself in that situation.) I haven't tried booting Windoze since I copied to the NVME. I recently read that (at least in Dell Latitude E5470) one can only boot from NVME using UEFI. I noticed that OS probe didn't find Windoze. I have a vagiue reco

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread David Wright
> table. But fdisk has known about EFI partitions since at least v2.11n/woody/2002 with the two-byte code ef. Presumably this code was chosen at the same time as GPT's EFI code ef00, saving confusion. > > > The boot record is MBR not GPT, but with the EFI partition primary >

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread Van Snyder
mited to 2byte types. The > > > ESP also has a > > > unique UUID type c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b that has no > > > place in an MBR > > > table. > > > The boot record is MBR not GPT, but with the EFI partition primary > > and > > at a

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread Felix Miata
ace in >> an MBR >> table. > The boot record is MBR not GPT, but with the EFI partition primary and > at a low enough address, the grub installation worked. > As far as I can tell, one cannot change the boot record to GPT without > wiping out the partition table, which wou

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2025-08-18 at 15:31 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2025-08-18 11:13 (UTC-0700): > > > On Mon 18 Aug 2025 at 00:31:13 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > > > > Is this an unavoidable intrinsic problem with UEFI, or is it a > > > twelve- >

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2025-08-18 11:13 (UTC-0700): > On Mon 18 Aug 2025 at 00:31:13 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: >> Is this an unavoidable intrinsic problem with UEFI, or is it a twelve- >> year-old bug in grub-install or grub-mkconfig — or whatever the Debian >> insta

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread David Wright
untu > > > directory is corrupted (bug 1090829)." Of course, I'm trying to > > > install > > > Debian but maybe there's a clue there — if only I knew where to > > > read > > > about bug 1090829. > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread David Christensen
On 8/18/25 00:31, Van Snyder wrote: On Sun, 2025-08-17 at 15:49 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1090829 grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error The twelve-year-old answer I found was to make sure the EFI partition was FAT32 (mine was

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread Van Snyder
gt; > install > > Debian but maybe there's a clue there — if only I knew where to > > read > > about bug 1090829. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1090829 > grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error The twelve-year-old answer I f

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
l Windows, I let the Windows installer have the whole disk and I accept the defaults. I could no longer boot. So I decided to upgrade from Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie. All went well until the end when grub install failed. Please post the console session. All I get is a blank blue

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2025-08-17 12:31 (UTC-0700): > I upgraded the BIOS in my Dell Latitude E5470 from 1.19.3 to 1.34.3. > I could no longer boot. So I decided to upgrade from Debian 12 Bookworm > to Debian 13 Trixie. > All went well until the end when grub install failed. Did y

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread Van Snyder
60 545M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/nvme0n1p9 194547712 2000408575 1805860864 861.1G 83 Linux > If you press the boot menu hot key during POST, can you boot the OS > on > the HDD/SSD? > > > > > > I could no longer boot. So I decided to upgrade from Debian 12 >

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
went well until the end when grub install failed. Please post the console session. I have an EFI partition. It's formatted for FAT32. It has an EFI tag — I told the "partition" step to use that partition for EFI. I found a twelve year old recommendation to run sudo dosfsck -r

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread Felix Miata
d > about bug 1090829. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1090829 grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread Van Snyder
I upgraded the BIOS in my Dell Latitude E5470 from 1.19.3 to 1.34.3. I could no longer boot. So I decided to upgrade from Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie. All went well until the end when grub install failed. I have an EFI partition. It's formatted for FAT32. It has an EFI tag — I

Re: How do I reinstall grub-efi?

2025-08-12 Thread Hans
mand and edit fstab. In another case, where I got stuck, I used the rescue-option from the installer cd (or USB-stick is working, too). After mounting all partitions in the rescue environment, I could reinstall the grub-efi-part again. The rescue-system automatcally found and suggested the correct

Re: How do I reinstall grub-efi?

2025-08-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-08-12 08:10, Max Nikulin wrote: On 12/08/2025 04:26, gary wrote: I gave up and resigned myself to a clean install of Debian 13. However that also failed to provide any relief, as grub refused to install on the boot device. Is NVRAM boot entries on your headless machine points to

Re: How do I reinstall grub-efi?

2025-08-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/08/2025 04:26, gary wrote: I gave up and resigned myself to a clean install of Debian 13. However that also failed to provide any relief, as grub refused to install on the boot device. Is NVRAM boot entries on your headless machine points to proper partitions (efibootmgr -v)? Do you

How do I reinstall grub-efi?

2025-08-11 Thread gary
ntil yesterday. After multiple attempts to get the system to boot by reinstalling grub-efi, updating grub, etc., I gave up and resigned myself to a clean install of Debian 13. However that also failed to provide any relief, as grub refused to install on the boot device. So now I am stuck boo

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
p is more by way of commentary than a request for help. > You don't need /boot to be a separate partition and grub can read MD > RAID-1 so you could "just": I tried that, got rid of partition 1, put it all in partition 2. Instead of wipefs I did: mdadm --zero-superblock

Re: How do I remove grub from other distro?

2025-08-11 Thread Felix Miata
mailinglist.skid704 composed on 2025-08-11 07:26 (UTC): > I have Debian and Ubuntu installed in dual boot configuration, And I wish to > remove grub from one of them How do I do that? Boot distro whose Grub you wish to keep. If /boot/efi/EFI/ does not exist, ensure the Grub you just

Re: How do I remove grub from other distro?

2025-08-11 Thread mailinglist . skid704
Hi, It is bios I suppose. There is no /sys/firmware/efi neither /boot/efi. Thanks.

Re: How do I remove grub from other distro?

2025-08-11 Thread Marco Moock
On 11.08.2025 09:50 Uhr mailinglist.skid...@aleeas.com wrote: > I have Debian and Ubuntu installed in dual boot configuration, And I > wish to remove grub from one of them How do I do that? EFI or BIOS? I case of EFI, you can have both bootloaders installed in different directories of t

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-11 Thread Marco Moock
On 11.08.2025 02:40 Uhr Alain D D Williams wrote: > The disks are DOS partition table format not GUID as the > hardware/BIOS does not understand GUID - I bought it in 2012. In 2012 EFI was very common and even an old BIOS won't care, as it only looks at the boot sector, which can be used with GPT

How do I remove grub from other distro?

2025-08-11 Thread mailinglist . skid704
Hi all, I have Debian and Ubuntu installed in dual boot configuration, And I wish to remove grub from one of them How do I do that? Thanks is advance.

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-10 Thread Andy Smith
closer to the start of disk, > so I would need to make it smaller on sdb as well. You don't need /boot to be a separate partition and grub can read MD RAID-1 so you could "just": 0. Have backups 1. Copy contents of /boot/ to /tmp/boot/ 2. Unmount /boot/ 3. mdadm --stop /de

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-10 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 09:00:37PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > GPT/UEFI booting predates 2012 by a number of years. Your BIOS could well > understand it if you desired to use it. No, I tried this when I installed Debian a few years ago - before that it ran CentOS. I have no idea how old the BIOS

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-10 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 12:53:06AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I suspect you have too few sectors between the beginning of the disk and > the start of sda1 for grub to fit its core.img in. Please show us the > output of: > > # fdisk -u -l /dev/sda > # fdisk -u -l /dev/sdb &

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-10 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 01:36:03AM +0100, Alain Williams wrote: > I get an error installing grub. I do not understand it let alone know how to > fix it. Note that the error happens for sda but not sdb: > grub-install: warning: You have a short MBR gap and use advanced > co

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-10 Thread Felix Miata
a1[0] sdb1[1] > 510976 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > I get an error installing grub. I do not understand it let alone know how to > fix it. Note that the error happens for sda but not sdb: > # grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda > Installing for i386-pc platform. >

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-10 Thread Andy Smith
t an error installing grub. I do not understand it let alone know how to > fix it. Note that the error happens for sda but not sdb: > > # grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: warning: You have a short MBR ga

grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

2025-08-10 Thread Alain D D Williams
I have just upgraded from bookworm to trixie. An AMD FX (64 bit) machine. The main disk is 2 disks in a RAID-1 pair (mirroring). The boot partition is /dev/md0 that is built thus: md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 510976 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] I get an error installing grub. I do

Package on hold (was: Disable upgrades on grub)

2025-05-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> echo "PKGNAME hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections > is that the same as apt-mark hold PKGNAME Reminds me that I wish we could add a comment describing why it's on hold (or alternatively, provide a config file where we can write which package should be held, using a format that allows comments).

Re: Disable upgrades on grub

2025-05-29 Thread xuser
Thanks On Thu, 29 May 2025, Felix Miata wrote: Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 14:41:08 -0400 From: Felix Miata To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Disable upgrades on grub Resent-Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 18:41:29 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Greg Wooledge composed on

Re: Disable upgrades on grub

2025-05-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 18:38:31 +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 17:54:00 +, xuser wrote: > >> How to configure apt to not install upgrades for grub? > > > > echo "PKGN

Re: Disable upgrades on grub

2025-05-29 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2025-05-29 14:27 (UTC-0400): > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 17:54:00 +, xuser wrote: >> How to configure apt to not install upgrades for grub? > echo "PKGNAME hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections > Do that for each package you want to put on hold

Re: Disable upgrades on grub

2025-05-29 Thread fxkl47BF
On Thu, 29 May 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 17:54:00 +, xuser wrote: >> How to configure apt to not install upgrades for grub? > > echo "PKGNAME hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections > > Do that for each package you want to put on hold.

Re: Disable upgrades on grub

2025-05-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 17:54:00 +, xuser wrote: > How to configure apt to not install upgrades for grub? echo "PKGNAME hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections Do that for each package you want to put on hold.

Disable upgrades on grub

2025-05-29 Thread xuser
How to configure apt to not install upgrades for grub? xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

2025-05-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Would it be ok to install "grub-pc-bin" and "grub-efi-ia32-bin" ? Steve McIntyre wrote: > Yes. That's exactly the design of the packaging here: the -bin > packages contain the binary grub code that you're looking for, and > grub-pc a

Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

2025-05-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Thomas wrote: > >i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need >the directories > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc > /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi >alongside the already installed > /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi >in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI to

Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

2025-05-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dan Ritter wrote: > Would downloading the deb packages, then un-ar'ing them in a tmp dir > get you most of what you want? Maybe. But i was looking for a way to create BIOS+EFI grub-mkrescue ISOs by regular Debian means. To answer my own question: https://tracker.debian.org/med

Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

2025-05-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need > the directories > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc > /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi > alongside the already installed > /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi > in order to get an ISO for l

How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

2025-05-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need the directories /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi alongside the already installed /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together. Gentoo and Arch obviously can have this

Re: 回复: [External] Re: Recall: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread to...@tuxteam.de
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 05:53:31AM +, Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Thanks for your updates. Hi, Kean (is this the correct way to address you?) Thanks for your detailed description. Myself, I am not a grub expert, but with that description I'm sure someone around

Re: Recall: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 05:49:34AM +, Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > renh...@lenovo.com would like to recall the message, "Grub struct the OS > reboot". Hi, I read your first message, and couldn't make much sense of it. Quite possibly, others are in the same situation a

Recall: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海
renh...@lenovo.com would like to recall the message, "Grub struct the OS reboot".

Re: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
d then it is stuck without seeing the grub info, and the > mouse and keyboard no response. > > What did I do? > I removed the SSD from the machine and put it on another device for use. The > other devices could boot up normally, so I executed "sudo apt-get install > g

Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海
Package: grub Version: 2.06 When I installed Debian 12.10 on my device : CPU: 13th GenIntel Core i5-13500x20 Graphic:Mesa intel UHD Graphics 770(ADL-S GT1) Memery: 16G During the installation, it works well, but after finishing the installation, it will reboot, and then it is stuck without

Re: R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-25 Thread Frank Guthausen
nd). Yes, the harddisk is prepared and now you can start the installation almost from scratch. > Question: It would be better if I would have made /boot too? This is a question of personal preference. I like to have a separated partition or softraid device for /boot even while not required b

R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
Thanks! Debian 12 only. So... mdadm! CPA Da: Dan Ritter Inviato: Giovedì, 24 Aprile, 2025 16:29 A: Pier Antonio Corradini Cc: Debian Users Oggetto: Re: R: R: R: Grub problem Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configu

R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
apt update apt install --reinstall grub-pc exit umount /target/sys /target/proc /target/dev umount /target Anything wrong? Thanks. CPA Da: Frank Guthausen Inviato: Giovedì, 24 Aprile, 2025 18:36 A: debian-user@lists.debian.org Oggetto: Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
elped me manage the configuration of LSI for Linux. The AI ​​recommended me a very long manual configuration procedure in which Grub was installed after I had installed /boot on each of the two hard drives and had partitioned each disk identically. However, when I restarted the computer I ha

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Frank Guthausen
use of dmraid? If you don't need the hardware RAID (e.g. for dual boot Windows) you might try deactivate it and use Debian softraid with mdadm only. This should work in any case, because once the Linux kernel is started it takes control and does usually a very good job. You should install grub

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configuration Uitility Ver A.63, 2010; BIOS Versione > A.09.04151432R. > Chipset Intel 3200 + ICH9R ( > https://www.fujitsu.com/cl/Images/ds-py-tx100-s1.pdf: Intel 3200 server > chipset, ECC memory and RAID 0/1). > This RAID is

R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
to: Giovedì, 24 Aprile, 2025 14:14 A: Pier Antonio Corradini Cc: Titus Newswanger; debian-user@lists.debian.org Oggetto: Re: R: R: Grub problem Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You can find everything about the LSI system I described at this link: > https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7

Re: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
manage the configuration of LSI for Linux. > > The AI ​​recommended me a very long manual configuration procedure in which > Grub was installed after I had installed /boot on each of the two hard drives > and had partitioned each disk identically. > I don't understand if I&

Re: R: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Titus Newswanger
Debian 12 to do the partitioning does not create /boot and therefore the Grub installation fails. If you create /boot (and all the other partitions) manually, Grub is installed but the operating system does not load and when you turn it back on, the RAID no longer exists in the loading console

R: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
create /boot and therefore the Grub installation fails. If you create /boot (and all the other partitions) manually, Grub is installed but the operating system does not load and when you turn it back on, the RAID no longer exists in the loading console. Moreover, if you create, in the

Re: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Michael Paoli
n that case, I think GRUB mostly installs to the /efi filesystem, and possibly also /boot filesystem (or / if there's no /boot filesystem), similar to the above. As for /efi, that can't be under md raid1, however one can have it on two drives and install it to both for redundancy. If the

R: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
(i.e. with RAID 0). Then, one day, after compiling the source code the OS went to crash and any attempt to install it always gave problems. Even a careful manual partitioning allowed the installation of Grub but not the loading of the operating system. PA _

Grub problem

2025-04-22 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
Hello everyone, Debian 12 does not install GRUB on a RAID 1 array of my computer: I don't know if this problem is caused by a hardware failure or by my inexperience so I ask if there is a reference guide for this case. Thanks. C.P.A.

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread hlyg
Thank Wright! with more than 20 years of experience in installing and using debian, do i have to read installation guide? it is said that installing debian is as easy as pressing Enter it is dumb to report fatal error after all configuration and copying after 30 years of development, install

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > the traditional behvior of "su" (before it was broken in buster). > > > > I don't understand the

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 04:09:31AM +0800, hlyg wrote: > > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > Thank Wright! i have solved

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
Greg (HE12025-03-27): > I'm certain sudo has its use cases, but all I do personally is su to > root and update and upgrade my stable Bookworm using apt, so I feel no > need to complexify the issue with sudo. The fallacy in here being assuming, without stating it and without justifying it that sudo

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread J
> > "sudo -i" is meant to approximate the behavior of "su -". Before buster, > nobody would have used that on a Debian system. It's horrible. The > fact that people are now embracing it as a norm is even worse. > Why horrible?

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