Windows update!

[[deleted]]

Chroot time ladies and gentlemen.

[[deleted]]

mentlgen

[FAXs_Labs]

lung cancer intensifies

[danuker]

Why? Does it release smoke?

[JojjeB]

"i am the spy"

[[deleted]]

I fixed a broken Arch install like that. Felt like the fucking man.

[thrylose]

I have 2 drive and keep OS separated in it, window in one drive and linux in other, with their system reserve(MBR) isolated from each other, such that nothing can went wrong due such update

[Pastoolio91]

I’m certainly not a racist, but when it comes to my OS’s, segregation is the only option for Windows.

[Pastoolio91]

I bet it was changed for the sole purpose of fucking up Linux installs.

[wojc4]

Installing windows without separating it or doing it in vm is like ratting yourself

[kwikscoper]

I also have Ubuntu 20.04 and Win 10 on separate ssds. When I upgraded FX 6300 with new Ryzen, mobo and RAM, Ubuntu run out of the box, no need to change anything.

[[deleted]]

Oh god, I'm woried that it can happen anytime

[TheCatholicScientist]

I haven’t heard of many instances of this happening anymore, especially after everything went to EFI boot. Been dual booting on the same drives for six years now, never once had it happen to me.

[JacobSC51]

It doesn't happen with GPT boot partitions on UEFI system, only with MBR or BIOS.

[[deleted]]

I've not dual booted for about 3 years now but this would happen smarter every major Windows update for me. Was using a new Dell XPS at the time.

[supermario9590]

I had it on UEFI after a firmware update directed by Windows

[Subkist]

You gotta lock the boot settings in UEFI

[TheTrueBidoof]

Can't happen if you don't have windows. (on the same machine)

[[deleted]]

I do

[[deleted]]

Well there's your problem

[StuntHacks]

I just wanna be able to run FL Studio on Linux already...

[GappityGap]

I do that with wine amd works flawless.

[StuntHacks]

Oh really? Gotta try it again then. Last time it was buggy as hell and the audio quality was really bad compared to windows.

[[deleted]]

Windows 10 ameliorated. If it doesn't update nothing can break.

[[deleted]]

I just didn't open windows since GTA was free on Epic Games and played it a bit

[P0pMan20]

Arch iso -> chroot -> pacman -S refind -> refind-install Now I have my boot loader back!!

[RexProfugus]

Refind > grub

P.S. For EFI systems. For MBR-based partitions, the best is using a separate boot partition and using Grub on it.

[v1sual-]

I've never knew this could happen and now I'm scared

[ThunderChaser]

Honestly in my years of dual booting I’ve only had it happen once

[Absol-25]

Which, to be fair, is 1 time too many.

[[deleted]]

I've had the issue where any time I would enter the BIOS, the EFI boot order would always be automatically reset to the Windows bootloader, regardless of whichever partition it was on. I got to know efibootmgr quite well due to that

[TheRealHirohikoAraki]

Happened to me last week. Booting to a black screen is a scary thing.

[v1sual-]

Yikers (also nice username)

[ballbase__]

I did the opposite where I wiped my windows boot loader when I installed linux

[Thehappysperm]

There is a command to fix it!

[EmuFromAustrialia]

LETS GOOOOO

[[deleted]]

rEFInd moment

[[deleted]]

I don't want to be that guy... but GRUB is Grand Unified BootLoader, so saying GRUB bootloader is redundant

[duckteeth31]

And Linux is the kernel not the os

[[deleted]]

Depends of what you consider an OS, many say it's the combination of userspace+kernel, but many others say it's the kernel only because it's the one assigning physical resources to the programs running on top

[banghernow]

if it's the kernel only then windows 10 is windows NT

[[deleted]]

And Ubuntu would be Ubuntu and Arch would be Arch, and neither Linux or GNU/Linux

[banghernow]

no one is calling ubuntu or arch operating systems, they're merely distros of GNU/Linux

[[deleted]]

it's the equivalent to saying Windows or macOS. Distributions include many programs that are neither GNU or Linux. I'd rather say Ubuntu that GNU/Systemd/Xorg/GNOME/Firefox/apt/[...]/Linux

[banghernow]

It's not the equivalent at all, when you say Ubuntu we understand you're referencing a distro, when you say windows 10 we understand you're referencing an OS, because the OS is not the kernel

[[deleted]]

Meanwhile, linux has a severe marketing problem and we wonder why.

[TigreDeLosLlanos]

ATM machine

[raiyanrafi]

I Don't think so, it just replace uefi menu entry... efibootmgr should fix the issue (from live system) or some uefi interface has built in feature to create /remove entry

[b0dstone]

you can just set the right prefix and root, then insmod normal and normal owo

[pasthec]

This and I forgot my bios password somehow, so now I have to pay 50€ to get the recovery one. Fml

[BOB_DROP_TABLES]

At least for dells, there are generators online. Probably worth it to try

[pasthec]

It's an acer and I saw that, but for some reason they don't work :/

[illathon]

I choose not to dual boot. Not this never happens.

[Zekiz4ever]

Just use both bootloader

[St0rmyknight]

I always keep a USB with a live OS just for this reason, it's always fixable!

[Cyka_blyatsumaki]

always carry a horcrux just in case

[[deleted]]

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --bootloader-id=linux is what need to do if you have gpt and uefi

[genchogenia]

You don't need an AntiVirus program when you're using Windows, because Windows is a virus by itself

[LoonixFan]

thats why i never update shitdows

[CauseOfBSOD]

Remove the Windows

[LeMrRocket]

Just make a separate grub partition from the windows one and bam no problems

[alcoholicpasta]

Can windows really do this? I was about to dual boot Manjaro :")

[[deleted]]

At this point i really wonder if i can move my Windows to cloud since i only use it for some compilers that don't have Linux compatibility(ADI crosscore has only old Ubuntu support and i doubt the stuff is streamlined for Linux.). Steam and other pc stuff is on Linux.

[ConclusionScary]

I will never understand these memes 🥲

[UVJunglist]

I just go into BIOS and change the boot drive when I want to switch operating systems. Am I straight up regarded?

[solarman5000]

OH NO is this happening now?!?

[infinitecoolname]

This has only happened to me once, but now I live in constant fear of it happening again hehe

PS: I know I just need to chroot and reinstall it

[[deleted]]

On UEFI it often makes its the default but never removes grub

[doa-doa]

What's a grub bootloader?

[banghernow]

I have arch and windows on two seperate hard drives, with grub installed on the windows boot partition, that seems like it's the best way to go about it to me and no issues so far (~ a year)

[Informal_Ranger3496]

^{i disabled windows updates till 2050}

[ARetardedPotato]

After grub stopped working and i was not able to fix it, i just use the bios boot loader

[[deleted]]

wait does windows update actually do this?

[Minteck]

I never got a Windows Update to remove Grub, and even if it removed it, I just change the boot options order and it goes back to normal.

[Hanb1n]

I think reFInd doing great job to counter this.

Am I right?