When I was first getting into Ubuntu as a teenager I installed the grub bootloader on my dual boot install. I was shitting my pants when I restarted and it booted straight into Ubuntu instead of asking if I wanted Windows 7 or Ubuntu.
Broke my first Linux installation after just a couple month by mucking around with Nvidia drivers. And when I say mucking around, all I did was update them...
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nicman24@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
Me: wipes cmos
My board: I've never met this
mannvme in my lifeNapkintony@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Oh you wanted to make a small adjustment in your stable heavily modded game? Fuck you, spend the next six hours fixing it.
roofuskit@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Who could have foreseen these consequences?
Hovenko@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Now you have to boot into USB, decrypt couple of hard drives, assemble raid, mount into place and chroot to start troubleshooting.
Iusearchbtw.
mcneb10@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
I feel you. Once I f’ed up my GRUB config file and I had to boot off an Arch USB to fix it. (Ialsousearchbtw)
alternative_factor@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Me: "Well I didn't really need it anyway, right?"
VulcanSphere@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Oops, this happened to me after activating some systemd services years ago (forced me to boot into emergency mode to disable offending services)
-spam-@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
It's fine, I wanted to try a different distro anyway...
loaffy@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
When I was first getting into Ubuntu as a teenager I installed the grub bootloader on my dual boot install. I was shitting my pants when I restarted and it booted straight into Ubuntu instead of asking if I wanted Windows 7 or Ubuntu.
grilledsausage@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
It's almost always /etc/fstab for me, thankfully.
ubluntu@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Years ago I learned to always use vim when editing fstab for the syntax highlighting
NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
captainsiscold@kbin.social · 0 pts · 3y
Guilty as charged. Also, mucking about with the Nvidia drivers for no good reason is also not a great idea, as I learned a few months back.
socks@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
I've broken an embarrasingly large amount of Linux installs through mucking around with nvidia drivers.
Lilkev@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Broke my first Linux installation after just a couple month by mucking around with Nvidia drivers. And when I say mucking around, all I did was update them...
PrunesMakeYouPoop@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Precisely why I bought an AMD card for my new rig.