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Question about EFI partitions and dual booting
The results of efibootmgr -v show that partition 9 of the disk is indeed the default EFI system partition.
The first entry in the boot order is 0000 which corresponds-to:
HD(9,GPT,<uuid>,...
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(multi-boot )Ubuntu 22.04 updates have new kernel images and remove old ones, but the grub menu is not updated accordingly
The grub menu will be in /boot/grub/grub.cfg as seen by the currently booted distro (unless you go out of your way to override it with grub-install's --boot-directory=DIR option).
If your two Ubuntu ...
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Debian 13 shows “error: file /boot/vmlinuz-linux not found” after logging into Debian 12 (dual-boot setup, device names differ)
In my case, the issue was caused by GRUB being installed on the SATA SSD, whose device name changes between systems (/dev/sda - /dev/sdb).
This confused GRUB when switching between Debian 12 and ...
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Debian 13 shows “error: file /boot/vmlinuz-linux not found” after logging into Debian 12 (dual-boot setup, device names differ)
When you boot from Debian 12, GRUB incorrectly remembers the device labels sda/sdb.
On the first attempt to start Debian 13, GRUB therefore looks for the kernel file on the wrong drive. On the second ...
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Installing Arch on an external SSD without using a USB stick to boot
You can boot from the external SSD normally. You just need to adjust a few settings in your BIOS/UEFI.
Such as disabling Secure Boot and ensure that booting from external/USB media is enabled.
On some ...
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