The last time I was forced to install a fresh Linux system on my old laptop, I had opportunity to learn how to steer GRUB to boot a system using a bootloader located on a USB drive. This little trick saved me dozens of hours – until I tried to do the same with a Proxmox VE image, where it initially failed.

Eventually, I made it work. Here’s a short instruction – for me and for you.

I struggled with the strange behavior of dhcpcd on my Raspberry Pi powered by Raspbian. The RPi does many things on my local network, including ad-blocking thanks to the pihole service.

I run pihole¹ as a docker container, and it does its job perfectly well. Thanks to the port binding, I could bind port 53 (DNS) directly to the host and use its address as a DNS server.

Almost every modern computer has a dedicated menu to choose from which device the system should boot. If not, there is an option in BIOS/UEFI to change that. But what if both options failed for some reason?