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Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

From Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing
Date 2024-01-03 22:10 +0100
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Thanks, this actually did the job. I don't know what it was, but my 
guess is it was the step "purge Grub before reinstalling it".


PS: rewrote to the old subject, as this is clearly an answer to the 
original problem, as it doesn't have anything to do with replacing Grub 
all together.

On 03.01.24 21:04, Eddie wrote:
> I have had very good results using "Boot-Repair" software to recover 
> Grub difficulties.
>
> Eddie
>
> On 1/3/24 14:23, Richard Rosner wrote:
>> So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, 
>> I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded 
>> without any trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd just asks me 
>> if I want to boot with fwupd or with the still very broken Grub. Am I 
>> missing something? Is rEFInd really just something to select between 
>> different OSs (and not just different distributions like Grub can 
>> very well do) and then gives the rest over to their bootloaders or am 
>> I missing something so rEFInd will take over all of Grubs jobs?
>>
>

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Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-01 11:50 +0100
  Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-01-01 12:00 +0100
    Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-01 13:00 +0100
      Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-01 17:40 +0100
        Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-01 17:50 +0100
          Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-01 18:00 +0100
            Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-01 18:20 +0100
              Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-01 19:10 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-01 20:40 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-01 21:30 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-01 21:50 +0100
                Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after  updates on Testing] Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-03 20:30 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Eddie <eddie.seymour@gmail.com> - 2024-01-03 21:10 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-03 22:10 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-04 19:10 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-04 20:00 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-07 18:10 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-07 19:00 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-07 19:00 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-04 02:20 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-04 08:50 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-01-04 12:00 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-04 12:00 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing] Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-04 13:10 +0100
                Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-04 08:50 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-01-04 08:20 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> - 2024-01-04 09:40 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-04 12:00 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-04 18:20 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> - 2024-01-04 19:00 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-05 00:40 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2024-01-07 20:50 +0100
                Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd  after updates on Testing] Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de> - 2024-01-07 21:00 +0100

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