Hello everyone, I'm trying to install Debian on my Asus UX31A using command line utilities like debootstrap and grub-install. However, the installed system is not bootable. The problem is that the internal drive (which I install the system to) doesn't show up in the boot menu (which is what the user sees when pressing ESC during power-on).
I created a minimalist recipe demonstrating the issue: sudo parted /dev/sda mklabel gpt sudo parted /dev/sda mkpart init 0% 50% sudo parted /dev/sda mkpart root 50% 100% sudo parted /dev/sda set 1 bios_grub on sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt sudo debootstrap stable /mnt sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev sudo mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts sudo mount --bind /run /mnt/run sudo chroot /mnt apt install grub-pc sudo chroot /mnt grub-install /dev/sda sudo umount /mnt/run sudo umount /mnt/dev/pts sudo umount /mnt/dev sudo umount /mnt/proc sudo umount /mnt/sys sudo umount /mnt I've intentionally stripped the parts concerning installation of a kernel and creating configuration files like grub.cfg and fstab, these things work already. For now, all I want to see is that the user can get a GRUB command line after power-on. The grub-install command outputs "Installation finished. No error reported." and therefore I expect being able to boot into the GRUB command line. But again, the problem is that the ESC boot menu doesn't show an entry for (the model name of) /dev/sda, so I can't boot into it. Previously, I've successfully installed Debian using official installation media on this machine (also using BIOS boot interface), so I know that it works in principle. But now I want to do it using command line utilities like debootstrap and grub-install. Any help would be very appreciated. Kind regards, Valentin Caracalla
