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I feel like it’s harder to break the bootloader these days. All my dual-booting escapades worked fine, I still have most of my hair, and there’s no way my Linux skills have improved that much.
I think that the major issue with the bootloader is when a user confuses the device file for the entre drive (
/dev/sda
) with the device file for the partition (/dev/sda1
), whch is not entirely unreasonable for a new user who doesn't understand the naming system to do. Like,mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
rather thanmkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
. Then you overwrite the entire drive, starting with the MBR, rather than the contents of a partition with your new filesystem.