I was trying to install Qubes OS today and when I was enabling VT-X in my BIOS settings, I accidentally deleted the UEFI boot entry for my previous Debian installation. Any idea how to recover it? It was previously running GRUB.
I have a debian live USB to work with as of now.
#[SOLVED] Accidentally deleted UEFI boot entry for Debian 11 on my system - Need help recovering
merry cedar
I need to get some passwords stored in Firefox off of the installation before I wipe it with Qubes.
oak dawn
Chroot and reinstall grub?
merry cedar
I'll do this tomorrow. It's just the boot entry that's broken
oak dawn
Ok you can probaby use arch install scripts to make chroot easy
Also if it proves to be more of a hassle to fix the boot entry it's probably easier to just reinstall grub
merry cedar
Is the boot entry just an .efi file? I might be able to fix it if I can decrypt the drive automatically
I use an encrypted hard drive but the EFI file might be somewhere on the unencrypted partition
oak dawn
Oh, no idea tbh
topaz blaze
Is the boot entry just an .efi file? I might be able to fix it if I can decrypt ...
no
the efi executable and the efi entry are 2 seperate things
merry cedar
essentially in my BIOS menu there's entries for items
topaz blaze
but if you still have the efi executable
you can recreate the entry
merry cedar
When I create an item it asks for an EFI executable
merry cedar
where would the executable exist in the drive hierarchy? I could only find one included with the BIOS and the grub on my flash drive
topaz blaze
where would the executable exist in the drive hierarchy? I could only find one i...
the esp
merry cedar
it only gives me PCI device labels and GPT vs MBR drives
rare orchid
I need to get some passwords stored in Firefox off of the installation before I ...
just chroot and copy the file
alternatively, use os-prober to add debian entry to qubes' grub (or equivalent for the boot loader)
merry cedar
hm, I'm about to get a new hdd so that might be an option
stark cave
I need to get some passwords stored in Firefox off of the installation before I ...
backup your passwords if using hardware to store it
merry cedar
Managed to find the GRUB entry. Thanks for the help anyways!
merry cedar
Managed to find the GRUB entry. Thanks for the help anyways!
... solved
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