Hi,

i wrote:
> > Would it be ok to install "grub-pc-bin" and "grub-efi-ia32-bin" ?

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Yes. That's exactly the design of the packaging here: the -bin
> packages contain the binary grub code that you're looking for, and
> grub-pc and grub-efi-$arch do the configuration to use one of those
> binaries to make your system bootable.

I can confirm that installing grub-pc-bin did not keep the machine from
booting today. :))

I should have looked into the Debian package descriptions for GRUB five
days earlier when i learned that a BIOS+EFI setup was involved.
Instead i developed a wild theory about the /tmp filesystem on Gentoo
while being fooled by atexit(3).
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2025-05/msg00028.html
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2025-05/msg00054.html


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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