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I installed debian and got into GNU GRUB, Need help booting

For your boot problem, the old bootloader from the Xubuntu installation might be still selected as the primary boot target. Go into BIOS boot order settings, and ensure that a boot target named debian ...
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Fix Linux grub with boot-repair with an old BIOS PC and a GPT drive?

Reference: https://askubuntu.com/a/500431/1210606 Most Linux based OSes can indeed work in BIOS/Legacy/CSM mode with a GPT drive provided it has a small bios_grub partition - ~2 MiB, unformatted, i.e.,...
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How to parametrize Linux kernel boot to entirely miss any video?

You can tell the kernel to not change video modes by adding the nomodeset parameter: Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory for ...
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Geting error during bootup

x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS. It's a notification that Intel Software Guard Extensions have been disabled by BIOS. That feature could be used for various things, including Digital Rights Management ...
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Failure to start system from EFI shell

After testing various other distros I was able to launch a Debian ISO, and the installer on it. It failed at the "Installing the system" stage, installing manually via debootstrap however ...
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how to clone UEFI bootable USB disk onto another disk (possibly of different size)

From what you've written, you've missed the most important part: UEFI will search for a boot loader named by default EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (case insensitive) on the EFI partition. The disk must be ...
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How to boot into a terminal in arch

How to boot into a terminal in arch Run systemctl set-default multi-user.target to start into multi-user mode instead of into graphical mode. I've tried adding init=/bin/bash to the boot options ...
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How to revert intel-microcode

My understanding is that the Kernel only updates the microcode if the Kernel has a later revision of the microcode than the BIOS. If you run dmesg|grep -i microcode the output can indicate if the ...
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System booting all right despite wrong root entry in /etc/fstab

I recently had similar problem and did some research. My understanding is that it works because you have correct partition set in: kernel command line root=<UUID of /> parameter. Satwell wrote ...
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