Thanks. I should mention, almost all my experience with this issue has been in the context of full install to USB drive, which I have done many times (both installers).I used the standard installer. Can't say about Calamares.
Edit: Fiddling around, found a relatively simple solution and (I think) how the devs expect this to work. Added a second virtual hard drive to a UEFI-installed virtual machine (Mint, which happened to be the only UEFI VM I had handy not already Debian). Installed Debian to the second VHD, using the Guided - Use Entire Disk option. Installer formatted target, created an EFI partition, added same to fstab, and installed its boot loaders there (putting nothing in the first drive). Only thing I didn't get was an entry in NVRAM (notice this is similar to mrmazda's hypothesis in the thread's first reply), so the system booted to Mint rather than Debian. In Mint, I manually added an NVRAM entry for Debian (using efibootmgr), which worked fine on reboot. Reinstalling Grub would have done the same thing.
Statistics: Posted by pbear — 2025-03-05 04:38 — Replies 15 — Views 2037
