Every time Windows updates itself, my Linux disappears. Actually, it’s just hidden, only the boot menu was overwritten. You need a computer maintenance technician to make a new boot menu. I use a USB stick with a live Linux with automatic boot repair tools.
Recently, Windows has become resistant to Boot Repair Disk. Now I have to open computer firmware by tapping “Esc” right after power-up, then select “Boot options”, then “Linux”.
EU must ban all US-made smart products for its own safety. All closed-source software and electronics that can be used for strategic manipulation and sabotage – Google, Apple, Amazon, all of it.
We have functional, clunky open-source software that could easily be fitted for any purpose with the money we waste propping up foreign monopolies sabotaging us. Europe has taken a huge risk. I suspect bribery.
As someone who just started using Linux regularly, this seems bonkers to me.
Unless you’re building your own kernel and compiling apps from scratch, why would anything in /bin break?
Sorry i meant
/boot, on some systems it seems to link to the EFI partition, so when you have a dual-boot setup, updating the kernel breaks the other system’s kernel or something… I just checked and it seems to not be an issue on my current setup, as they aren’t links to the EFI partition.Oh, that makes more sense.
Still, from my tests with Mint, it looks like it probes other disks and partitions when updating grub, and reinstalls it correctly. But I suppose there are cases where the probe could fail and you’d have to boot from the grub prompt.
yeah it’s more of a hypothetical worry, i guess. since every system seems to handle boot a bit differently (unfortunately), it’s difficult to get a definite answer to that.
I personally love the UEFI boot system, but it’s not typically directly used. Instead, some complicated grub setup is often in place. That makes it a bit of a complicated question.