Grub rescue should come with a hug or maybe a nice picture of a landscape.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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A random gif with a cute cat or a dog would be nice.
Difficult to stuff this in the MBR for non EFI users. AFAIK grub can display background pictures though.
Be not afraid, for I bring good news of a functioning CPU and memory, tools to inspect your disks, and as foretold in the time of the smartphone you may even still have Internet access to read all of the documentation.
Implying I can understand the documentation even when it's available.
I learnt a ton about Linux by fucking up my boot config and being too stubborn to just nuke and pave
299792458ms is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
This is either you preventing suicide or extending the partition rescue nightmare.
it's significantly less scary if you have a backup
blows off dust
here we go.... april 2007? uhoh...
Eh, it's not like much happened between 2007 and now, maybe just a couple of updates
Me: restores from backup
Wifi driver: fades to nothingness
Me: ptsd dog meme
😁or if you only store OS stuff on your local drive and have all data in your cloud including game saves
And by cloud you mean your server in the basement, right?
Always put the important servers in the attic, where they get fried by the summer heat, instead of the basement, where the flood hits worst.
you could put the server on a floatation device in the basement.
Joke's on you I use my server as pink-noise producers
I have it at my Friends Location and it is backed up on a hetzner clone that we can switch to without interruption if our own ship goes down
Of course running stable debian, 😁 secure stable debian in server distrohoppibg at home
initramfs> _
"sudo kms" is such a mood 😭😭😭
I have a server I've abandoned because it does this every time it reboots. Use an old desktop from work instead.
sd-boot or directly booting EFI stubs rocks