My experiences - George. On Wednesday, 25-09-2024 at 12:37 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: > > An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Debian > > Mate, Debian XFCE. > > What issues you have faced trying to install multiple desktop > environment to the same Debian installation?
Grub did not find other existing Linux distributions. Found Windows, but not other linux distributions. I did not try hard to determine the reason. I decided if it did not work, don't pursue the issue. > Display managers allow to > select session type before login (but some can not remember per-user > preferences). Using a different display manager is not the same as using a different installation. > > I do not expect serious issues with multiple Linux flavors. Perhaps > installer should be switched to expert mode to adjust some defaults. I do use expert mode when installing Debian. > > If you still prefer to have independent Debian installations then in the > case of UEFI and shim-signed+grub-efi-amd64 (for Secure Boot) on the > same ESP partition see > <https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/vc31n1$ahn$1...@ciao.gmane.io> > [SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot. Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:59:29 +0700 When ever possible, I do not use Secure Boot. Though in my attempt to have multiple Linux installations, I did try (once). > > You need grub 2.12 from bookworm-backports and custom GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR > in /etc/default/grub. > > Despite in that thread I was trying to concentrate on selecting OS from > UEFI firmware menu, Felix Miata repeatedly insisted on using grub menu > for this purpose. In your case grub menu may be easier to maintain. > Perhaps Felix may provide more details now to do it conveniently. > >
