I have never used Ubuntu as a distribution and used occasionally as a demonstration but my love was Mandriva, SuSe and Debian.
I could not install both Peppermint 10 and PCLinux side by side with Debian and finally decided to install Ubuntu 20.10 and as a preparation installed it on my PC on the second drive to boot from the second drive leaving my workhorse Debian in the SSD.
SSD does not have a MBR or master boot record.
I could have written the GRUB to boot from a USB with so many USB around I would forget.
Installation went all right it picked up all the distribution already installer including PinGuy.
I am pretty sure it will not pick the ESP boot partition.
As anticipated it crash landed and could not figure out the ESP boot partition.
I booted FATPup installed in the Laptop and found a home partition in my name in one of the partitioned used and over 5GB written in the other, assuming it's Ubuntu distribution files.
What I am now going to do is to reinstall the second Debian installation having prepared space by deleting few partitions not used
I know Debian will figure out if Ubuntu could be written to the GRUB file.
I have gone through this routines 1000 times and while it is being booted I will sip a cup of tea.
In good old days in BIOS fstab boot record I would write the booting sequence and mount the partition in question.
I have forgotten those details and ESP partition can possibly be edited likewise.
But I let Debian automation to do the job.
Yes Debian did the job and Ubuntu was booted from ESP partition.
Now I can display Ubuntu to a guy new to Linux who has no knowledge of Debian.
I think going after various new distributions is a waste of time and Debian 11 is already out for one to try.
I am dry of Data and Internet access currently.
I will try it when the lockdown is eased.
Friday, June 18, 2021
Ubuntu as a Last Resort, Did not Work
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