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Can't relate to be honest, I still use MBR boot (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Unyieldingly@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image

[–] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 10 months ago

No need to fix it, the bootloader is safely installed on a write-protected floppy disk

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I had used Arch for years before and never once messed up my bootloader. What are yinz doing over there?

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

You probably had it installed in MBR mode. UEFI boot is why there are so many problems of this kind nowadays. Switch to MBR, the problems go away.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My problems are usually during the installation, not necessarily related to Arch, but more so that EFI requires its own partition. I'll partition my disk, forget that I need a FAT32 partition and then have to destroy a partition so I can add in the EFS . The other problem I've had is that the bootloader entry sometimes doesn't get written after installation, so you reboot and then nothing, so you have to boot back into the ISO, remount everything, reinstall the bootloader (in my case, Grub), and reboot again.

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Im happy that I haven't fucked up the bootloader so far. Don't want to fix that shit too.

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just killed my desktop environment but the bootloader works.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

That is good news actually.

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