Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.message-squaremessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1309arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1302arrow-down1message-squareA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square116fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSock Puppet Society@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoFunny I did not expect so many people that resist starting over. Next time I’ll give fixing stuff a shot :)
minus-squarecmhe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoIt is more about being lazy. In most cases, where you havn’t destroyed your filesystem, you can just boot another Linux from a USB stick, mount your filesystems to /mnt, chroot into it, and then investigate and fix there. See the Archlinux wiki, even if you do not use Archlinux, it is great: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot
Funny I did not expect so many people that resist starting over. Next time I’ll give fixing stuff a shot :)
It is more about being lazy.
In most cases, where you havn’t destroyed your filesystem, you can just boot another Linux from a USB stick, mount your filesystems to /mnt, chroot into it, and then investigate and fix there.
See the Archlinux wiki, even if you do not use Archlinux, it is great: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot