On Wed 05 Apr 2023 at 07:03:41 (-0700), Peter Ehlert wrote:correct. different term, same thing. Not UEFI
Debian Bookworm RC 1 installerI ran rc1 in my usual manner, and the only difference I noticed was
Damned nice, the improvements are appreciated.
the one extra question about non-free firmware, to which I replied
yes. (There may well be improvements under the hood, so to speak.)
Oh, and the initrd is somewhat larger, as per usual.
using the new debian-bookworm-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.isoI assume Legacy means BIOS booting. Same here, but only one disk.
Legacy install, GPT partition
I enable GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER so that the various other operatinggraphic install, manual partitioningNon-graphical here, a suitable partition existed, and only
Mate Desktop (others were deselected)
standard and SSH server software was installed.
WiFi firmware:Untested as this machine is a 2006-vintage mini-tower lacking wifi.
[ snipped narrative of later network-switching ]
Boot Loader:I can't recall seeing anything other than the first item highlighted,
all disk drives were detected, however the one with the bios_grub
partition was highlighted
ie "Enter device manually", at least with the non-graphical installer
in expert mode. I selected the (sole) hard drive, item 2. The only
remaining item was the USB stick containing the installer ISO.
As expected nowadays, when the machine rebooted, the Grub menu
had only two lines, both pointing to the newly installed system.
(I hadn't made any attempt to counteract GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER
during my installation.) So Grub was correctly installed in the
MBR, and the rest of Grub occupied d400 bytes of /dev/sda1 (the
3MB BIOS boot partition on the single disk).
=============How did you determine that it was the previous menu. Wouldn't it look
second try, using the debian-live-bkworm-DI-rc1-amd64-mate.iso
same machine and again Legacy install, GPT partition
however I did NOT install from the live session:
I chose to go directly to install rather than the Calamares installer
then manual partitioning
Boot Loader:
all drives were detected, however the one with the bios_grub partition
was NOT highlighted, but I did select it.
GRUB was Not properly installed, my former grub menu was still active.
just the same?
I boot with the "old" GRUB menu as explained above...it has Several*** I tried a second time, same as above being super careful, same result. >>Which method did you use to boot the "default" system (which I assume
I then booted with my default system, ran grub-install /dev/sde &&
update-grub
then "new" system was on my boot menu.
then booted and it ran as expected.
is bullseye, in a different partition on one or other of the disks),
in view of the rather sparse menu from grub.cfg on the new system?
Thanks, I did not know where to look or what to look for.back to the WiFi dongle, again the obscure firmware was properly installed >>Presumably we are now back to talking about Grub.
Is this a Bug or a user/hardware issue?
If you still have access to the bookworm system, you can check whether
it claimed to have completed installing Grub successfully. You should
see lines like:
grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force "/dev/sda"
grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully
in /var/log/installer/syslog.
You could install and run boot-info-script, which provides details ofthanks for that thought
how the system boots, particularly where the MBR code looks for the
BIOS boot partition (ie core.img). BTW do any other disks in this
machine have BIOS boot partitions? (I've one on all my internal disks.)
But as far as we're concerned, I think more information is needed,
like what disks there are on the system, which disk the BIOS is
reading the MBR from, the final listing from the partitioner,
particularly any BIOS boot partitions, and so on. Without all that
in the narrative, there's no telling whether it's a bug or not.
Cheers,
David.
On Wed 05 Apr 2023 at 07:03:41 (-0700), Peter Ehlert wrote:correct. different term, same thing. Not UEFI
Debian Bookworm RC 1 installerI ran rc1 in my usual manner, and the only difference I noticed was
Damned nice, the improvements are appreciated.
the one extra question about non-free firmware, to which I replied
yes. (There may well be improvements under the hood, so to speak.)
Oh, and the initrd is somewhat larger, as per usual.
using the new debian-bookworm-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.isoI assume Legacy means BIOS booting. Same here, but only one disk.
Legacy install, GPT partition
I enable GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER so that the various other operatinggraphic install, manual partitioningNon-graphical here, a suitable partition existed, and only
Mate Desktop (others were deselected)
standard and SSH server software was installed.
WiFi firmware:Untested as this machine is a 2006-vintage mini-tower lacking wifi.
[ snipped narrative of later network-switching ]
Boot Loader:I can't recall seeing anything other than the first item highlighted,
all disk drives were detected, however the one with the bios_grub
partition was highlighted
ie "Enter device manually", at least with the non-graphical installer
in expert mode. I selected the (sole) hard drive, item 2. The only
remaining item was the USB stick containing the installer ISO.
As expected nowadays, when the machine rebooted, the Grub menu
had only two lines, both pointing to the newly installed system.
(I hadn't made any attempt to counteract GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER
during my installation.) So Grub was correctly installed in the
MBR, and the rest of Grub occupied d400 bytes of /dev/sda1 (the
3MB BIOS boot partition on the single disk).
=============How did you determine that it was the previous menu. Wouldn't it look
second try, using the debian-live-bkworm-DI-rc1-amd64-mate.iso
same machine and again Legacy install, GPT partition
however I did NOT install from the live session:
I chose to go directly to install rather than the Calamares installer
then manual partitioning
Boot Loader:
all drives were detected, however the one with the bios_grub partition
was NOT highlighted, but I did select it.
GRUB was Not properly installed, my former grub menu was still active.
just the same?
I boot with the "old" GRUB menu as explained above...it has Several*** I tried a second time, same as above being super careful, same result. >>Which method did you use to boot the "default" system (which I assume
I then booted with my default system, ran grub-install /dev/sde &&
update-grub
then "new" system was on my boot menu.
then booted and it ran as expected.
is bullseye, in a different partition on one or other of the disks),
in view of the rather sparse menu from grub.cfg on the new system?
Thanks, I did not know where to look or what to look for.back to the WiFi dongle, again the obscure firmware was properly installed >>Presumably we are now back to talking about Grub.
Is this a Bug or a user/hardware issue?
If you still have access to the bookworm system, you can check whether
it claimed to have completed installing Grub successfully. You should
see lines like:
grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force "/dev/sda"
grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully
in /var/log/installer/syslog.
You could install and run boot-info-script, which provides details ofthanks for that thought
how the system boots, particularly where the MBR code looks for the
BIOS boot partition (ie core.img). BTW do any other disks in this
machine have BIOS boot partitions? (I've one on all my internal disks.)
But as far as we're concerned, I think more information is needed,
like what disks there are on the system, which disk the BIOS is
reading the MBR from, the final listing from the partitioner,
particularly any BIOS boot partitions, and so on. Without all that
in the narrative, there's no telling whether it's a bug or not.
Cheers,
David.
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