Debian 12.4 installation fail on Dell OptiPlex 7040

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Hello,

I’ve run into an issue with a fresh install of Debian Bookworm to a new nvme m.2 ssd.

After 5-6 attempts to install Debian, the post install fails to boot. No grub errors.

I’ve tried re-installing Grub from LIVE DVD several different ways to no avail.

In the Bios set-up I’ve manually tried to set-up the new NVME but it after booting it resets the drive info from PCI(…) to VenHW(…) [VenHW appears to be a windows boot manager setting]

I now believe the BIOS/EFI is full or corrupted. There are 16 boot listings showing in efibootmgr.

Suspect #1
Initially the no-graphical expert install completed with a question to update NVRAM which I’d not seen before and accepted with YES.

Norse

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Finally gave up Debian as it wants to be the primary install and doesn’t like my dual boot with Arch LTS.

Installed Garuda KDE-lite from a DVD.

The Garuda Soaring Installer took a LONG time with osprober-bios update. 3 passes timed out before finally succeeding. (I suspect that the BIOS was messed up somehow and Garuda corrected the issue.)

I started out with a dual boot Debian 12 / Arch LTS. (production / sandbox).

Now have a Garuda KDE Arch / Arch LTS (production / sandbox). Running happily after restoring /Home and the VirtManager /var/lib/libvirt/images.

Finally can get back to my CNIX virtual machine!

Norse