• RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    Is that actually easily fixable? Was planning to go dual-boot soon on my laptop and haven’t even considered this scenario.

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      7 months ago

      It’s relatively quick and easy to fix if you have a live boot Linux usb stick …and probably a second machine so you can Google what to do. It’s just also rather worrying at the time.

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      7 months ago

      My old thinkpads have this great feature where the hard drive is easilly accessible on the side, so I leave the cover off and just swap the drive to boot into a different os

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      7 months ago

      iirc the last time it happened to me, i just needed to fix the uefi entry which wasnt that bad.
      (just remember to have a usb stick with a live image ready)

      if it were to overwrite your bootloader that would be a way harder fix.

      i dont remember if the second ever happend to me