Joe composed on 2023-11-28 15:02 (UTC-0000):
> the BIOS resets
> DefaultBoot to the Windows drive and I then need a rescue OS to get back
> to grub.
If this is accurate, your BIOS is broken. It's standard procedure for a PC BIOS,
even since before UEFI in PCs became commonplace, to provide a BBS menu (BIOS
Boot
Service). These are a hotkey distinct from a BIOS setup hotkey but used in same
manner, to interrupt control shifting from BIOS to disk with a menu offering a
selection of media to attempt to boot from. Common keys are:
Abit F9
Acer F12 or ESC or F9
ASRock F11
Asus F8
Biostar F9
Dell F12
eCS F12 or F10
eMachines F10
EVGA F7
Gateway F12 or F10
Gigabyte F12
HP/Compaq F9 or ESC or ESC,F9
Intel F10
Lenovo F12 or F8 or F10
MSI F11
Shuttle ESC or F11 or F7
Toshiba F12
Once the BBS menu appears, you should be able to select Debian UEFI (UEFI), or
the
disk where Grub was installed (Legacy/BIOS), or a USB stick, or OM drive, or
PXE, etc.
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