On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 05:01:54PM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 07:03:05PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2026, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> > ...
> > 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.

Now I understand that i386-pc grub-install would not write to
a disk with a GPT partition table and EFI partition.

Installing grub-efi-amd64 isn't going to clobber
anything without my commanding it? That is, except for
replacing grub-pc, correct?

I should be able to resolve booting problems, but I do want
a USB utility that will boot linux partitions whether MBR or
GPT/EFI is used.

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


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Joel Roth