Can't relate to be honest, I still use MBR boot

EFI is so much better

Start using and efistub and never worry about boot loaders again!

Do we really ever fix the bootstrap, or does the bootstrap fix us?

Ah yes, simplicity. MBR, with all its limitations had one killer feature: it was extremely simple.

UEFI, as powerful as it is, is the opposite of simple. Many moving parts, so many potential failure points. Unfortunately, it seems like modern software is just that: more complex and prone to failure.

I once fucked up my grub.cfg, wrote over the part needed to unencrypt. Had no idea what had happened. Was a fun night :)

Nuke the boot loader and burn your compiled code directly onto the bare metal the way the designers intended.

Was upgrading Devuan and something happened with grub-update, could be my btrfs subvol setup?

Anyway a rescue boot, chroot and grub-update later, and it's running great again.

i prefer EFI, MBR breaks easily and dual booting with it is horrible

Honestly can't remember the last time I had a bootoader issue. Don't get me wrong, I've broken plenty of other things.

I've been struggling with the boot loader for four days now and now my laptop boot loops and I can't even access my primary OS (still windows) and can only access Ubuntu via flash drive. So yeah this meme is too fucking on.

MBR is so easy to understand. UEFI, has so many things to understand EFI, ESP, MOK, signing procedures and signing chains, ... it's just so darn complicated.

I cant be the only person who noticed the Arch user dating a fury!?

I wouldnt go to be either…oh yes “bootloader”.

Can't relate to be honest, I have a life and use Fedora

I feel this.

Although my last bootloader is adventure was pretty easy...installed a completely separate drive for Linux and wanted to boot off of that drive (sdb). A bug in the Linux mint installer put the bootloader on my the windows drive instead (sda).

Was fairly straightforward to switch over though (change in fstab then installing grub). I use the bios boot selector (F11) for me to select either the win loader or my Linux mint efi.

Am switching over to Linux as primary driver. So tired of nags, ads, "switch to Edge", long updates, etc. love being able to ssh+x onto that (relatively beefy) box from my laptop and run ides and such.

Started using UEFI booting with secure boot. Much easier to fix and work with.

No need to fix it, the bootloader is safely installed on a write-protected floppy disk

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image

I bout a new HDD and installed linux mint. Works fine except for two major things. Related to the post, I cannot get the bootloader to find windows 10 no matter what I do. I might try to swap the windows drive to sata slot 1 and see if that (a) still works for windows and (b) gets grub2 working. For now, I have to go into the BIOS and mess with the boot order there to switch.

The second problem, not related, is there doesn't appear to be any fan control software that works for my MSI motherboard's CPU fan (lmsensors doesn't see any sensors related to it) so the fan constantly runs even when it's fine in silent mode on windows with regard to temperature. I have trouble with certain sounds (and trouble hearing over background sounds in general) so this is actually more of a dealbreaker than the bootloader.

I had used Arch for years before and never once messed up my bootloader. What are yinz doing over there?

Im happy that I haven't fucked up the bootloader so far. Don't want to fix that shit too.

I just killed my desktop environment but the bootloader works.

Legit question. Outside of FOSS and a few more frames per second on some steam games, why would anyone go through the trouble of installing and configuring a Linux box? Last time I tried I couldn't get my Bluetooth headphones to work and I had to buy a new webcam because I didn't know how to compile drivers.

I sorta just accept I'm running a bit slower and everything works on my TinyPC win10 box.