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    That's why we need two ssds for dual boot (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Is that actually easily fixable? Was planning to go dual-boot soon on my laptop and haven't even considered this scenario.

    [–] Teppic@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    It's relatively quick and easy to fix if you have a live boot Linux usb stick ...and probably a second machine so you can Google what to do. It's just also rather worrying at the time.

    [–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

    My old thinkpads have this great feature where the hard drive is easilly accessible on the side, so I leave the cover off and just swap the drive to boot into a different os

    [–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

    iirc the last time it happened to me, i just needed to fix the uefi entry which wasnt that bad.
    (just remember to have a usb stick with a live image ready)

    if it were to overwrite your bootloader that would be a way harder fix.

    i dont remember if the second ever happend to me