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Yeah, and most likely the other sentence "As of 2023 and Debian 12 the amd64 installation media (available in netinst form) includes the UEFI boot loaders necessary for both i386 and amd64 boot." indicates that this was enabled also in the kernel.

Whatever, so you are adapting simply the behavior ...

Okay, but I mean not the usual way through the CSM "legacy BIOS emulation" mode (which is present on most older UEFI firmware).

I talk here about the native booting in UEFI mode but between different EFI "bitnesses". As far I remember that EFI "mixed-mode" capability was introduce in Linux kernel ...

A new topic.:smile: How it looks about the " EFI mixed-mode support " in MX Linux? Is the kernel built with the corresponding "EFI mixed-mode" flag? ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub )

This is of course relevant only for the x86-64 build of MX Linux. However, that feature would be very useful ...

Okay, so the option is still there when using the "custom install" path. So I simply didn't see it.

I have installed MX Linux to an external SSD (USB) so that's the reason why I selected "full disk" install.

Whatever, thanks for the hint. Will remember that for the next time. And perhaps it would ...

Yes I have deleted the MX GRUB related entry via rEFInd.

I also removed / purged GRUB from MX Linux with: sudo apt remove --purge grub-common (which also uninstalled some other stuff)

This worked all fine and in contrast to Kubuntu the GRUB packages are until now not automatically reinstalled ...

Hi all

At first many thanks to all MX Linux maintainers and volunteers for the great work in this project!

Here follows some input regarding my recent observations with MX 23.2 on really old Apple x86 hardware. Yeah, MX Linux is one of the rare distros which are capable to be installed on those ...