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On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:15:10AM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> I tried to partition with rEFInd because Linux Mint 19 i386 xfce 32bit
> worked with EFI. In hope to upgrade to x86-64bit. After it looked like all
> good, I went out, thinking it was OK. But installation came back to start,
> asking me to choose put boot in Mbr, Partition with Gparted or Abort. Mbr
> resulted in warning. Gparted offered grub bios, took that, result was root
> in /target
> instead of in /dev/sda1
> Now:
> lsblk
> sda1 148G  part  /
> sda3  999M  part
> 
> Looks okay;
> sda1 as root
> sda3 as swap
> 
> Better I try boot
> Then see what happens.
> (Later upgrade to 64bit if I can).
> BR,
> Gunnar

Hello,
I think you are making this way too difficult for yourself.
Maybe you are following some recipes you found through google.
These are most likely outdated and it is much simpler today.
I converted a number of Macs into linux machines, including
one powerpc one. And maybe ten years ago you had to handle
with refid, these days you just can use the installer and
almost everything (except the driver for the wifi cards)
just works.

Please post the actual cpu this machine has. Then we can tell you
what to do to install debian on that machine.
Please tell us also about the amount of memory installed.


-H


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Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com

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