It installs but when i try to boot it wont. When i select the hdd in the boot menu it does nothing. Ubuntu server and fedora works but i woud like debian

  • @[email protected]
    6•6 months ago

    You might need to disable secure boot (you can fix the bootloader shim and re-enable it later).

  • EugeniaEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    There is a way to fix this, because I had the same problem with my DELL workstation, specifically with Debian. Basically, it boils down to a buggy UEFI, not finding the grub64.efi file at the location it expects.

    Here’s how I fixed it: Install Debian under Expert Install, and somewhere down the road when installing the bootloader, it will ask you one additional question: https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--3CziEmvx--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_800/https://i.postimg.cc/sXq7WMR8/64.png

    This will force EFI to find your bootloader. In my opinion, this forcing should be default on Debian.

      • EugeniaEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        I’m very glad! :) Indeed, it’s a bit of a hidden tip, I had to search a lot before I could get my Debian to boot too on my DELL.

    • @clubb
      4•6 months ago

      While I’m not op, debian offers increased stability over ubuntu and fedora, and that might be enough to make someone want debian

      • @[email protected]
        1•6 months ago

        Thank you for answering! ‘Stability’ as in “less inclined to change” does indeed better apply to the standard Debian installation than to either of Fedora or Ubuntu. However, Fedora derivatives like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux offer similar stability and so does Ubuntu LTS. So, while it does potentially explain why OP may have preferred Debian, it does not (IMO) by itself make a strong case.

        • @clubb
          5•6 months ago

          From my personal experience, ubuntu (lts or not), has a tendency of nuking itself randomly. It’s happened more than one time to me, to shit off my PC, eat something, return to a broken installation that doesn’t boot. And I’ve got plenty of experience with fedora just not doing things, like mtp, vulkan on flatpaks, I’ve had it crash on login (on x11), and had gnome apps constantly crashing (on wayland). Currently, I’m using debian, and I’ve never had any issues with it, other than outdated packages, which is relatively minor

          • @[email protected]
            4•6 months ago

            Thank you for sharing your experiences! While my personal experiences with these distros don’t quite match yours, I do appreciate your openness in this regard.

            Just to be clear, it’s not my intent to persuade OP to a specific distro of my liking. Rather, I was interested to know why they would rather troubleshoot their booting issues on Debian instead of returning to distros that have shown to work.

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•6 months ago

      I wanna selfhost invidious. It installed fine on debian whereas on ubuntu make cant find shards even though crystal is installed. I keep getting squashfs errors that stops network access