Control: found -1 2.06-13+deb12u1 You should not add any comment to pseudo-headers, it prevented the BTS from identifying the affected version. - extra files are written to the root filesystem before GRUB packages are installed; - package desktop-base installs grub background images which can be used in grub.cfg. There is no "minimal installation" option in the Debian installer. Which installation media did you use ? If you selected "Guided - all in one partition" partitioning, then (hd0,gpt1) is the BIOS boot partition (for grub-pc on GPT), (hd0,gpt2) is the root partition and (hd0,gpt3) is the swap partition. It won't help if these values were already set. Did you check the original values ? This means that GRUB ext4 driver fails to read requested files. Possible causes include a bug in GRUB disk or ext2 driver or a bug in the BIOS RAID disk driver. It can happen on very large disks. Did you try to partition the RAID array with a separate 1GB /boot partition at the beginning ? I am afraid this is only by luck and any grub update may break the boot.