On 06/11/2019 02:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 11/06/2019 ?? 13:36, songbird a ??crit :what i'm not sure of is if you need to bother with putting the grub bootloader on it so at the end where it asks you perhaps you can skip that step.IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two reasons.1) Obviously, it allows the drive to boot by itself so that you can move it into another machine, or remove the current boot drive, or change the boot order.The OP uses legacy boot, but be aware that this won't work the same with EFI boot : installing a second instance of a Debian system will overwrite the existing EFI boot entry "debian".2) It creates a grub.cfg file which provides hints about kernel parameters and so on when running update-grub from another system.Warning : you should disable os-prober when running update-grub on a non-boot system, otherwise it may happen that update-grub adds duplicate menu entries (sometimes hundreds !).
I'm the OP and now I'm concerned and rather confused. Fortunately, I haven't installed the new drive at this point.
Should I, or should I not, install the the Buster grub sub-directory on sdd, the drive on which I intend installing Buster? My understanding has been that I could install Buster, but not boot it at the end of the installation, bur rather close buster, reboot the computer into Stretch as root and then run update-grub in Stretch. Is this still a safe way to proceed?
My intent is to remove Stretch from the platform once that I'm confident with the performance of Buster, and the inevitable first problems with a new version of the OS have been resolved. But now I wondering about that course of action.
Please be advised that I'm a Chemist, not a Computer Engineer. Further comments will be much appreciated.
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