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Re: major booting issues for a totally blind user trying to boot debian 12.6 and windows 10 pro 64 bits on different drives with uefi booting



On 05/11/2024 at 15:11, Nick Gawronski wrote:
(...) now I am able to boot into both windows and debian just fine on different drives.

But Windows totally depends on Debian drive for booting. If you remove the Debian drive, Windows won't boot any more.

What installer log file on the debian system can I post to the list so someone can see exactly what I may have done to mess this system up so only debian would boot at first?
The partitioning log is in /var/log/installer/partman. It shows the existing partitioning scheme. But it does do not show your actions, only their consequences. It can be quite big, so better compress it or the list may delete it.

IMO the original sin was to have Windows ESP on a different drive than Windows main system partition (but I don't know how it happened, maybe the ESP was created before Windows was installed and Windows just used it). Then you selected "guided partitioning using an entire drive" which deleted the ESP. In order to preserve the existing ESP, you should have selected "guided partitioning using the biggest free space" or "manual partitioning".


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