Installation • How does the installer choose the disk where the boot manager is installed?

Following up on a previous question (https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment ... a_live_usb), I started an installation of Debian on an external M2 disk by

• booting on my laptop (that has Windows installed) from a Debian Live USB
• chose expert installation
• and made my way through the steps, including partitioning the M2 disk

I arrived at the crucial step where I install the boot manager. I took a screenshot of the screen but it was stored on the M2 and not the installation stick.

This screen explained that a fallback copy of the boot loader is installed somewhere. I wanted to choose this because I guess that this is what Reddit commentators had in mind when mentioning the "detached" part.

My question: how can I ensure (or how can I make sure) that the installation will be on the M2 and not on my laptop drive?

Statistics: Posted by WpqJ — 2024-07-26 14:20

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