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If you *really* needed to keep this system alive (without upgrading) you could at least get security updates through the Extended Long Term Support repositories. They intend to support Debian 10 "buster" until 2029-06.

according to the grub-install man page: so: a single option, introduced by two dashes

@FullScale4Me perhaps an erratum for your nice HowTo note

If your ASUS firmware allows you to boot the USB key in UEFI mode, you'd also get an extra boot-menu entry for rescue boot. I am using ventoy which allows booting in both modes, not sure if a key formatted using another tool would too.

Falcon wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 1:21 pm The I restarted from the boot menu and tried to reinstall GRUB to the MBR.

For a UEFI boot you'd need to re-install to ESP, not MBR.

Falcon wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 4:13 pm I tried using the UEFI manager as you suggested but I got the following message:

"This system doesn't seem to support UEFI, or was not booted in UEFI mode. Exiting."

That is probably because your USB stick (sdc) is MBR-partitioned and boots in MBR /legacy mode, *not* UEFI indeed.

Your first drive is GPT-partitioned and the second MBR-partitioned.

Does the ASUS firmware allow you to choose which drive to boot from, and either in legacy or UEFI mode ?

And are Windows and MX installed on the same unit, or each on its own disk ?

Not HD4000 but my i5-3550 (Ivy Bridge, HD2500) works fine with either the stock 6.1 kernel (MX23/bookworm) or 6.6 liquorix.

You could also try the antiX 5.10 kernel that is available in MXPI.

If their deb packages are not certified for debian (only ubuntu), do not attempt to use these as you might end up with an unfixable frankendebian. Installing as a docker image should apply to any linux distro and is probably your best bet. On debian the docker package is called "docker.io".

I don't understand people asking for the MX devs to build RC's and betas when there are available appimages and flatpak versions available for the adventurous.

Threre's also the appimage versions, you can try as many as you want. There are probably limitations (e.g if you need specific plugins or use mutliple languages) but for my basic usage they're just fine.