# Exploring issues when exchanging SSDs in test system using Butterbian

**URL:** <https://lab.justaguylinux.com/t/exploring-issues-when-exchanging-ssds-in-test-system-using-butterbian/58>\
**Category:** Butterbian\
**Created:** [August 4, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://lab.justaguylinux.com/t/exploring-issues-when-exchanging-ssds-in-test-system-using-butterbian/58 "2026-08-04T09:44:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jfabernathy](https://lab.justaguylinux.com/user_avatar/lab.justaguylinux.com/jfabernathy/32/66_2.png) [@jfabernathy](https://lab.justaguylinux.com/u/jfabernathy)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://lab.justaguylinux.com/t/exploring-issues-when-exchanging-ssds-in-test-system-using-butterbian/58/1 "2026-08-04T09:44:12Z")

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I’ve been creating different NVME stick and testing different options lately, most all of them some flavor of butterbian. Some of the times when I remove one NVME stick and replace it with another the system will not see that it has a bootable image and break to the BIOS/UEFI screen.

The computer is a GMKtek NUC with a snap off lid so it’s easy access to the NVME drives.

It seems this issue has been seen a lot and the Google recommended fix is to make sure that the grub installation uses the --removable option to create option.

> In the Debian expert installer, the option to install GRUB to the **removable media path** copies the bootloader to a hard-coded fallback location (`EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI`) on your EFI system partition rather than relying solely on registering an entry in the motherboard’s non-volatile RAM (NVRAM).

I’m not sure which options butterbian uses for grub-install.

EDIT: From booting the butterknife 0.2.15 ISO and looking at /opt/butterknife/lib/installer.py the --removable option is not used by butterknife installer for grub.

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**Author:** ![drew](https://lab.justaguylinux.com/user_avatar/lab.justaguylinux.com/drew/32/8_2.png) [@drew](https://lab.justaguylinux.com/u/drew)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 11:42pm UTC](https://lab.justaguylinux.com/t/exploring-issues-when-exchanging-ssds-in-test-system-using-butterbian/58/2 "2026-08-04T23:42:14Z")

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0.2.16 added. Thanks for a good idea.