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ra33

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Registered: 2023-09-13

Posts: 10  

Grub is broken!

Greetings!
Looking for a solution to a problem. Grub is broken!
The system boots only like this (video) https://dropmefiles.com/JyqK3
Tried these tools:
Boot-Repair
Super Grub2 Disk
SystemRescueCD
Rescatux

stultumanto

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Registered: 2023-12-12

Posts: 68  

Re: Grub is broken!

Devuan/Debian may not be set as the first entry in the EFI boot order. You can use efibootmgr to diagnose and fix this issue. Run 'efibootmgr' on the command line with no options to print the current configuration. You should see a line beginning with 'BootOrder:' followed by a list of numbers. There should also be a listing of boot entries, one per line, starting with 'Boot<number>* <name>'. Here's the output on my system, with only the entry for my main Devuan system shown: (The long string of x's is a censored UUID.)

$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0007
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0007,0001,0003,0005,0006,0004,0000,2001,2002,2003
[...irrelevant boot entries trimmed...]
Boot0007* debian        HD(1,GPT,xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)
[...more irrelevant entries trimmed...]

One of the boot entries should be your Devuan system; it will probably appear similar to the entry shown above. Its number should be first in the BootOrder list. If it isn't, then you can fix it with the 'efibootmgr -o' option. (The manpage for efibootmgr explains how.) If your Devuan system is already the first boot option, then your problem unfortunately lies elsewhere.

ra33

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Registered: 2023-09-13

Posts: 10  

Re: Grub is broken!

x@devuan:~$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000
Boot0000* debian

stultumanto

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Registered: 2023-12-12

Posts: 68  

Re: Grub is broken!

That appears to be corrrect. Perhaps your system does not have EFI selected as the default boot option. Some PCs support both EFI and legacy BIOS boot. That's the only other thing I can think of, as grub seems to be set up properly.

ra33

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Registered: 2023-09-13

Posts: 10  

Re: Grub is broken!

Apparently you need a user who has an hp
I think the bios is set up correctly?!
https://a.cockfile.com/yDvvrS.jpg
reference period 12h
update later