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Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

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On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM Richard Rosner <richard@rosner-online.de>
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> So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair,
>

I am not sure what you mean by "broken beyond repair." I have no issues
with Grub on Debian 12 on AMD64. I had no issues with Grub on Debian 11 or
Debian 10 on AMD64 either. I also had no issues upgrading from Debian 11 to
Debian 12. Is it possible that you simply have a corrupted hard drive and
simply need to reinstall from scratch?

You can download a Debian LiveCD for AMD64 from here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/ you can
then boot with it and mount your drive and copy your home directory to a
USB portable drive. When you reinstall I would create a separate partition
for /home. That way in the future you can always reinstall and just tell
the system to mount the existing /home partition.


> 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?
> On 01.01.24 21:45, Richard Rosner wrote:
>
>
> On 01.01.24 21:20, Richard Rosner wrote:
>
>
> On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote:
>
> On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote:
>
> On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote:
> I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's
> uneccessarily difficult to find some sort of guide how to even do
> this, it might as well be a documentation for users having such
> troubles in the future.
>
> Also, besides the way that I have no clue how it would have to look
> like to set up a paragraph in the grub.cfg, I simply don't see
> anything wrong with it anyways. So I can't even look at the grub
> settings files grub.cfg is being generated from to check where the
> error lies.
>
> You append the commands that you used to boot manually with into
> /etc/grub.d/40_custom, observing the comments there, and also into
> grub.cfg itself at the appropriate place (near the bottom). The
> former is so that Grub includes it in any new grub.cfg that you
> create.
>
> Good to know.
>
> Edit:, never mind. Tried that, it still booted straight to the UEFI BIOS
> menu after entering my password. At this point, I'm seriously considering
> slapping rEFInd on it and pray that it picks up on everything automatically
> and fix the situation. But so should Grub have, besides the fact that I
> can't even be entirely sure Grub is to blame and not something else.
>
>

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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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