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have you tried reinstalling the bootloader?
What's that?
It is a little program that starts an operating system. It's very small and basic. It has to be put in a special place on the drive.
Is that why I still have windows and Debian option to boot? So how do reinstall the bootloader?
It could also be entries stored in efi. Won't hurt to delete them from the list in bios if starting over.
I tried but they appear back
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html
I think the arch wiki has a better article imo
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB