My bootloader is often "Not found" because HP's UEFI deletes non-Windows boot entries after booting up from external drives. The correct boot entries cannot be put back from within UEFI, but instead you need to use tools like efibootmgr (Linux) or Bootice (Windows). I use the latter as it's in Hiren's Boot CD.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Thank fuck my ancient HP laptop doesn't do this and my desktop is also running fine ever since figured out at least one pitfall of a dual-boot.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Bootice sounds like a hooker name.

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 months ago

No wonder I'm not happy, my bootloader hasn't failed me once

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Eveytime I see a fear mongering news post on lemmy, I ban that community. I'm here for shitposts and tits.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully all the bootloaders in all my Linux systems are in working order, but the Windows partition on my laptop won't boot and I think it has to do with bootloader corruption. Otherwise I'm all of these.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

If you're not using grub idk but here would be some potential troubleshooting steps for Arch or any distro that doesn't change grub (pretty sure Debian has its own specific set of tools for grub)

Mount your Windows partition, install os-prober, enable OS probing in /etc/default/grub, and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

You might wanna mount the ESP partition too if it isn't already

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that GRUB (using the chainloader command) successfully calls the Windows bootloader when I ask it to run Windows, but I think the Windows bootloader is corrupted. It is corrupted to the point that I cannot even use the recovery disk or install disk to fix the system.

I think a Windows update broke it. I have OS probing enabled, and it successfully detected (and booted into) the Windows partition back when I first installed Debian. It still detects the Windows partition, but Windows bluescreens with an error message that I can't remember off the top of my head, but both Microsoft's support forum and other resources basically indicated could only be fixed with a reinstall. Debian, of course, boots just fine.

I ran chkdsk on the Windows partition with the Windows Recovery Disk and I also checked the partition in Gparted, and both processes found no errors. The Windows partition is perfectly readable from Debian.

So I'm inclined to believe that Windows broke itself.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago

If that's the case, then yeah. Rescatux might have a tool that can fix it but I don't really bother fixing Windows installs usually. I would still try regenerating /etc/boot/grub.cfg but if you've done that already it is probably Windows' fault

[–] euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

7: become femboy :p but yeah the others are accurate, especially doomscrolling twice

[–] recursivesive@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

My bootloader didn't fail. I modified my fstab without setting nofail nor noauto, took the laptop on the road, rebooted, and learned the hard way. ib4 RTFM.

[–] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

duno if its the homeinstance i am on but lemmy fells like 95% less doomscrolling that reddit, there is less content and less brutal stuff since videos are not supported

[–] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Reddit atleast had more other stuff to dilute the news and politics stuff. But without a lot of the smaller communities from Reddit that used to contribute to my home page it feels like all I get is memes and news.

[–] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, Reddit will actually need to kill itself, which, with how it’s being run, isn’t out of the question. Or, something no one else has thought of has to do something better. I don’t know that you can have essentially a Reddit clone ever have the user base for a lot of those niche communities to exist. Because they already do.

It’s hard for me to use Lemmy largely due to this. Unfortunately the communities I used Reddit for, really don’t exist anywhere else, so I still use Reddit, granted, in browser, and I no longer comment or engage with anything. But, it is the only place to get news and discourse for some of the things I like.

I sometimes consider attempting to create a more niche community here occasionally, but, to what end? I don’t have the sources or inside knowledge for some things. Nor do I have time for it realistically. Sad really, I’d like Reddit to die as much as any of us. But, I don’t see it happening. I do like it better here though in terms of actual engagement, when it happens.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am 5/6.
I am not happy...

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Time to delete your bootloader!

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I believe you meant to respond to @pleb_maximus@feddit.de

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks, but I'm happy enough with my bootloader found. 😅

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I did

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

~~Doom scrolling~~ Bean scrolling on Lemmy.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

NGL lemmy does have a lot more doom scrolling. Not in the good way where my feed is full of mostly Doom stuff. Not certain how to help change that.