Hello everyone!
I'm trying to install Debian alongside Windows 10 and a couple of other things. I decided to manually partition my drive, using a ~500GB partition to be mounted as root. The installer also apparently automatically used one swap partition that was already there of ~8GB as swap and one EFI partition as the EFI partition. Everything goes well until it gets to installing the bootloader where it says `grub-install dummy` fails.
I then tried running that in a separate shell.
`grub-install dummy` fails with the following error : `cannot open /boot/efi/EFI/debian/shimx64.efi` : No such file or directory.
If I try to mess with the partitions a bit more then come back to this step I start getting unrelated errors but if I start the install from scratch and do everything anew I consistently get back here.
Things to note :
- when I selected my USB boot drive in the boot menu it did say "UEFI : USB Disk" so I'm assuming the system is booted in EFI mode.
- I had other Linux systems installed which made a bit of a mess out of my partitions and EFI files. Currently if I run `ls /boot/efi/EFI` I get Boot, GRUB, Microsoft and rocky (notice that there's no debian folder.)
- I supposedly have secure boot off (I checked the settings for my asus motherboard and it seems to look like what it should look like when it's off)
Any help would be very appreciated!
EDIT : I don't know if it matters but I will add that I'm pretty sure that the EFI partition and the one I want for / are on different disks
I'm trying to install Debian alongside Windows 10 and a couple of other things. I decided to manually partition my drive, using a ~500GB partition to be mounted as root. The installer also apparently automatically used one swap partition that was already there of ~8GB as swap and one EFI partition as the EFI partition. Everything goes well until it gets to installing the bootloader where it says `grub-install dummy` fails.
I then tried running that in a separate shell.
`grub-install dummy` fails with the following error : `cannot open /boot/efi/EFI/debian/shimx64.efi` : No such file or directory.
If I try to mess with the partitions a bit more then come back to this step I start getting unrelated errors but if I start the install from scratch and do everything anew I consistently get back here.
Things to note :
- when I selected my USB boot drive in the boot menu it did say "UEFI : USB Disk" so I'm assuming the system is booted in EFI mode.
- I had other Linux systems installed which made a bit of a mess out of my partitions and EFI files. Currently if I run `ls /boot/efi/EFI` I get Boot, GRUB, Microsoft and rocky (notice that there's no debian folder.)
- I supposedly have secure boot off (I checked the settings for my asus motherboard and it seems to look like what it should look like when it's off)
Any help would be very appreciated!
EDIT : I don't know if it matters but I will add that I'm pretty sure that the EFI partition and the one I want for / are on different disks
Statistics: Posted by abp16 — 2025-01-13 22:48 — Replies 1 — Views 99