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.
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
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 assuming it’s a fresh install, so nothing of value was lost if the restore failed. But also I’ve heard attempting to delete things in
/sys
and/dev
can brick your computer. So it’s not a great idea.