Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Installation of Bullseye from "debian-live-11.1.0-i386-xfce+nonfree"
with fresh formatting of the "/" and swap partition of the SSD.
Everything worked as expectet until the installation of the grub2:
This part repeatedly led to reporting of a serious error without becoming more precise.
The following boot attempt failed, and ended in a grup-prompt
Almost a year ago, Debian 10 was installed on the same hardware without any problems.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Ineffective:
"boot-repair-disk-32bit", it led to the same result.
But: In the log there was the hint to the problem:
"grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/cow'."
Effective:
Booting the live system
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt
grub-install --recheck --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
* What was the outcome of this action?
After that, the system could be booted as usual, with the difference that there is now a textual Grub menu instead of the graphical one.