Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.message-squaremessage-square63linkfedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1249arrow-down1message-squareA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square63linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSock Puppet Society@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years 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-up3·2 years 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