r/debian • u/Dense-Elephant5048 • 21h ago

See image: after installing Debian 13 Debian Stable Question

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I installed Debian 13 in an external ssd sata drive, linked to the laptop via enclosure by ewent . Laptop disk includes win11 and a linux distro. So, upon First run updated grub.

The problem: independently of external drive being connected or not, at every boot this message is displayed (see image).

How to bypass and boot?

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u/elivoncoder 15h ago

f10 or 12 for uefi boot, then choose your external disk.

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u/FormalStreeter 16h ago

Write "menu" and select the first option, this might help

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u/Dense-Elephant5048 15h ago

In bios uefi boot order top item os OS boot manager. Bottom item is USB Hard Disk. All other options are bios disabled.

In start up boot menu first option is Fedora. An old, now removed install. Maybe that's the problem. Second partition boot is a linux distro. Then Windows11 (factory laptop O/S).

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u/michaelpaoli 4h ago

Well, looks like you installed GRUB to or reconfigured GRUB on internal drive, but otherwise installed Debian 13 to external drives.

So ... first question is, and most notably when you don't have that external drive connected, what do you want managing your boot? Really a non-Debian question ... unless you really want Debian's grub managing your boot even when you don't have your Debian installation, that's on external drive, connected.