On Monday 16 February 2026 at 18:55:47, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 04:37:54PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> >
> > Please confirm that the prompt you get is not:
> >
> > grub rescue>
> >
> > and it is also not:
> >
> > (initramfs)
>
> Antony, i meant that when installation finishes and __before__
> the first boot, I do Ctl-Alt-F2 to open a terminal.

Well, as I said in my previous reply, that's not going to do what you seem to
expect. You are not, at that point, in the newly-installed system; you are in
the installer environment.


Antony.

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