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six habits of 196 people (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by BautAufWasEuchAufbaut to c/196

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Six habits of happy people

doom scrolling on lemmy
feeling superior to people who use reddit
closing the app because no new posts
installing gnu+linux
bootoader not found
doom scrolling on lemmy

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[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 9 months ago

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 9 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