Sock Puppet Society to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 4 days agoA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.message-square114fedilinkarrow-up1309arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1301arrow-down1message-squareA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.Sock Puppet Society to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 4 days agomessage-square114fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSock Puppet SocietyOPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 days agoFunny I did not expect so many people that resist starting over. Next time I’ll give fixing stuff a shot :)
minus-square@cmhe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•2 days 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