• Bug#1101326: grub-common: Cannot switch back from UEFI to Legacy Mode

    From Pascal Hambourg@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 20:20:01 2025
    The BIOS is probably trying to boot from the wrong disk.

    You can install GRUB on the hard disk, let the machine boot
    automatically and, if it shows the GRUB menu, enter grub shell and check
    the output of 'ls'. If it shows hd0 (the boot disk) with one partition
    and hd1 with 5 partitions, then it means that it booted from the hard disk.

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  • From Pascal Hambourg@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 21:40:02 2025
    On 25/03/2025 at 21:07, Hartmut Krüger wrote:
    Hello,
    Thank you for the prompt reply. I followed your advice and ran
    grub-install /dev/sdb . This re-established automatic booting. However,
    I don't understand the fix. Why does Grub2 work in legacy mode on an HDD
    but not on an SSD?

    GRUB works on either disk as long as the BIOS boots from that disk
    (manually with the SSD, automatically with the HDD). Here, it seems that
    the BIOS automatically tries to boot from the HDD for whatever reason.
    Did you check the disk order in the BIOS legacy boot settings ?

    Am 25.03.25 um 20:11 schrieb Pascal Hambourg:
    The BIOS is probably trying to boot from the wrong disk.

    You can install GRUB on the hard disk, let the machine boot
    automatically and, if it shows the GRUB menu, enter grub shell and
    check the output of 'ls'. If it shows hd0 (the boot disk) with one
    partition and hd1 with 5 partitions, then it means that it booted from
    the hard disk.

    Did you check this ?

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