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Accidentally Deleted /boot/ (Debian)
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I've only ever used grub with bios/mbr or a BIOS/gpt (with grub bios partition).
No clue about efi/uefi.
This is the simplest method I can think of.
The arch wiki, however, is, as always, a great source of info:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB
**Linux is amazing in it's ability to keep working even when you accidentally all the things.
Annoyingly so. I once made a backup. Then to confirm it would restore the system, I deleted everything on root path. as in /
It did as told.
OK let's reboot and verify system.
Sudo rebootCommand not found
sudo shutdownCommand not found
But it sat there with a blinking cursor on the terminal
I'm a noob, so forgive me if I'm being very ignorant here, but how on earth could that be a good idea? It sounds like "in order to see if I've installed these airbags correctly I shall now crash head first into this concrete bridge foundation at max speed"?
I'm assuming it's a fresh install, so nothing of value was lost if the restore failed. But also I've heard attempting to delete things in
/sysand/devcan brick your computer. So it's not a great idea.I'm not so sure your analogy works. Unless you are testing to see how fast you can bring a new test dummy into production. Or you are testing to see how fast you can install new airbags with blemishes and all.
It gave me a reason to finally run the command that by recursively deleting everything.
It sounded like you were testing the (one and only) backup in a live environment is all.
Not to victim blame but you did put in --no-preserve-root. You had to read those instructions.๐