Step by step guide to boot your physical Debian install using Parallels Desktop 12: I installed Debian Buster EFI on a SSD Disk. 0) Change partition code on your Debian SSD to 0700 using gdisk First you need to find the dev $ sudo fdisk -l In my case it was /dev/sda. Then I did: $ sudo gdisk /dev/sda Choose p to see the partition table and the follow the help to change to 0700. In my case I needed to change Number 2 and Number 3 to 0700 and the final result was: Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 1050623 512.0 MiB EF00 2 1050624 1550335 244.0 MiB 0700 3 1550336 468860927 222.8 GiB 0700 1) Add a New Virtual Machine Now on Parallels Desktop: Choose Install Windows or another OS from a DVD or image file 2)Check the box : Continue without a source. 3) Choose Debian GNU/Linux 4)Check the box: Customize settings before installation 5)Select Hardware, Hard Disk 1 and remove it (- signal) 6)Now choose the + signal to re-add a Hard Disk 7)In type drop-down menu choose Boot Camp 8)Choose your physical HD with Debian 9)Check the boxes: Partition 1, Partition 2 and Partition 3 10)Choose Boot Order on menu and in Advanced Settings check the box: Use EFI Boot (Because I installed EFI. Maybe it is not the case for you) ---PD12 wasn't recognising Ubuntu Grub, so I copied a copy of Ubuntu Grub to the EFI Debian Partition--- 11)Mount the EFI partition on your Debian Physical HD. (I used Paragon EXTFS) 12)Copy the Ubuntu Grub dir to EFI --- In case PD12 boots to grub shell: 13)Find the kernel partition with ls grub> ls In my case it was on gpt2: grub> set root=(hd0,gpt2) Choose the vmlinux you want to boot grub> linux /vmlinu complete with TAB choose the init according to the vmlinux grub> initrd /init complete with TAB grub> boot 14)After booting $ sudo su $ update-grub $ grub-install Figure References: https://imgur.com/a/REflT
Funny thing is that Step 8 is not allowed with Parallels Desktop 13. Why? But I experienced problem when booting the physical partition after installing Parallels Tools. Then I decided to use Debian and it was less problematic.
Agreed, I cannot get past step 8. It seems that Parallels doesnt care anymore if a linux drive uses code 0700, it still wont detect it
