On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 07:03:05PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
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> Short story. I could not get the cloned partition to boot! I
> upgraded my daedalus and ran grub-install, confused about
> which grub I had. Last try was definitely grub 2, okay, but
> the i386-pc flavor. Is that used for an amd64 system?

No, you need to install and use grub-efi-amd64 to boot UEFI bios.

If you can and want to use legacy bios, then you need grub-pc instead.

There are also the matter of partitions. Look uop grub2 documentation.
Or perhaps someone will summarize it (no AI summary I hope).
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> I tried various USB boot disks with no success.
> ...

Ralph.