Hi all,
I’m having a bad day and did something colossally stupid, deleting everything from /boot/.
The system is still running. What do you think my best course of action is?
My current idea is to create a timeshift backup, reinstall debian from USB, then restore from backup in timeshift
If this won’t work or you have a better idea I would really appreciate your advice.
Thanks in advance
I’ve only ever used grub with bios/mbr or a BIOS/gpt (with grub bios partition).
No clue about efi/uefi.
This is the simplest method I can think of.
The arch wiki, however, is, as always, a great source of info:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB
**Linux is amazing in it’s ability to keep working even when you accidentally all the things.
I once sudo apt removed mint-x-icons or something which, for whatever reason, also needed to remove cinnamon. As in cinnamon the entire DE.
I realised what I had done as I watched the terminal.
#%&@! panic.
…
reinstalled.
joy.
Linux is amazing in it’s ability to keep working even when you accidentally all the things.
Annoyingly so. I once made a backup. Then to confirm it would restore the system, I deleted everything on root path. as in /
It did as told.
OK let’s reboot and verify system.
Sudo reboot
Command not found
sudo shutdown
Command not found
But it sat there with a blinking cursor on the terminal
Then to confirm it would restore the system, I deleted everything on root path. as in /
I’m a noob, so forgive me if I’m being very ignorant here, but how on earth could that be a good idea? It sounds like “in order to see if I’ve installed these airbags correctly I shall now crash head first into this concrete bridge foundation at max speed”?
I’m not so sure your analogy works. Unless you are testing to see how fast you can bring a new test dummy into production. Or you are testing to see how fast you can install new airbags with blemishes and all.
It gave me a reason to finally run the command that <insert something amazing here> by recursively deleting everything.