On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 10:35:46AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 08/04/2025 at 14:25, Marcos Dione wrote:
> > mdione@ioniq:~$ efibootmgr
> > BootCurrent: 0007
> > Timeout: 0 seconds
> > BootOrder: 0001,0002,0003,0004,0006,0007
> > Boot0000* ubuntu
> > HD(1,GPT,127eb1be-f7c7-4a2b-9745-4cb61cba7420,0x800,0x190000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)
> > Boot0001* Diskette Drive BBS(Floppy,Diskette Drive,0x0)0000424f
> > Boot0002* M.2 PCIe SSD BBS(HD,P0: WDC WDS200T2B0C-00PXH0,0x0)0000424f
> > Boot0003* USB Storage Device BBS(USB,SanDisk,0x0)0000424f
> > Boot0004* CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive BBS(CDROM,CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive,0x0)0000424f
> > Boot0005* Onboard NIC BBS(Network,Onboard NIC,0x0)0000424f
> > Boot0006* Onboard NIC BBS(Network,Onboard NIC,0x0)0000424f
> > Boot0007* UEFI: SanDisk, Partition 1
> > PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(16,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x52bf7ba9,0x117c,0x4a20)0000424f
> > Boot0008* M.2 PCIe SSD BBS(HD,P0: PM981 NVMe Samsung 512GB,0x0)0000424f
> > Boot0009* debian
> > HD(1,GPT,127eb1be-f7c7-4a2b-9745-4cb61cba7420,0x800,0xbe5e)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)
>
> The debian boot entry number 0009 is not in BootOrder, no wonder why it does
> not boot automatically. grub-install updates BootOrder to make the debian
> entry first unless --no-nvram is passed, so something is wrong here.
... so it's trying to boot from where, the m.2? It's the only other
thing listed there that's still available when I boot w/o the USB stick.
What would that mean? Trying to boot from the MBR?
> > This machine used to run Ubuntu, but not the disk (I transplanted
> > it).
>
> Weird, Debian and Ubuntu EFI partitions have the same partition GUID
> (PARTUUID) but different sizes.
The ones listed above? Yes. It _is_ weird.
> > I don't know why the M.2 appears twice.
>
> There are two different SSDs, 2TB Western Digital and 512GB Samsung.
Did you mean SanDisk? That's the USB stick.
> > mdione@ioniq:~$ lsblk
> > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
> > nvme0n1 259:0 0 1,8T 0 disk
> > ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 23,8M 0 part /boot/efi
> > ├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 1,8T 0 part /
> > └─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 48,8G 0 part [SWAP]
>
> The EFI partition is very small. It is big enough for GRUB but not for
> systemd-boot.
I guess I'm not using systemd-boot, so that's OK?
Cheers,
-- Marcos.
