I had to set up Grub2Win in order for these shenanigans to stop. Never had problems with dual booting again afterwards
For others who were interested in this like I was.
Be aware that systems with secure boot enabled are not supported and the author has stated will likely never be supported due to the hassle of getting it signed by a trusted authority.
not a huge issue but, still an annoyance
To be fair, Secure Boot is actively hostile toward dual-booting in the first place. Worst of all, it might seem to work for a while then suddenly start causing errors sometime later.
Yeah, I was just more so saying it because a lot of the larger distributions are trusted so you can use secure boot, so if you go into that expecting your OS will be supported and then find out post fact it is not might cause a surprise
I have in fact never had or seen this problem, and I’m quite bewildered by so many people having it. Do your normal windows updates do it? Or transition between major Windows versions? Or is it just a Win 11 problem?
I’ve pretty much always used a dual boot Win/Linux laptop, since around Vista, and I’m on 10 now (but only use it for a few games; all important things in Linux).
Windows update went way further than deleting Grub on my laptop. It completely wiped my Linux partition, and I’m not alone in having Microsoft blow up my system:
Usually people have issues with this when they don’t create the partition free space for the linux partition inside windows first
Ah, that could be it. It’s a long time since I used to resize Windows from Linux; now on a new laptop I always (…I think?!) resize from Windows to make space, unless it’s a friend’s laptop with extra D/E/etc partitions I can delete or resize one.
This is what made me switch to Linux full-time. I’m not surprised this is still a thing 10+ years later
perfect
This is the truest meme I’ve ever seen.
This just happened to me on my laptop like a week ago. I can still Systemd boot into Pop!_Os so I haven’t looked into fixing it yet.
You just need to boot from a live USB, chroot into the OS, and rebuild the boot sector. Pop has a great document on how to do it. It takes maybe 5 minutes.
Thanks! I assume this is the guide? I’ll have to try this out this weekend. I had looked at this earlier but moved on when it started mentioning grub since I use refind boot loader. Probably the same process nonetheless!
Yup! That’s the one. I think you can just do the grub install and then boot in and run refind. Idk though, I’ve never used refind.
Image Transcription: Meme
[An image of King Charles III stealing a wheel from a wheelchair. A person on the wheelchair is angry. They are labeled as such:]
King Charles: Windows Update
Wheel being stolen: UEFI Boot partition
Person on wheelchair: Linux
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Oh that’s why my Linux instance suddenly stopped working. I will have to look into this
As a new duel booting Linux user this meme has instilled a fear in me I didn’t need
I’m a bit offended by Linux beeing in a wheelchair, implying it can’t run, even if one wheel wasn’t stolen 😤
Instead, it should be 8 legged and run the web 😉
Can Linux not boot from UEFI boards then?
Linux boots fine under UEFI but windows tends to break/destroy alternative OS partitions.
Wilfried Just protects the user from accidentally selecting the wrong bootloader by conveniently removing them.
