• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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    8 months ago

    A grub breaking thingy happened to me too.
    I was saved by having multiboot, with every OS having their own GRUB version installed. (just selected one using the motherboard’s interface)

    The problem occurred when, after pacman -Syu, I read notes in the output, one of which hinted I would want to update GRUB and went - “Sure, I’ll try the new GRUB update” and ran GRUB update.

    When it didn’t startup after a restart, I just used the debian’s GRUB to login to the OS in question, downgraded GRUB, reinstalled GRUB and then ran pacman -Syu again.

    I feel like mine wasn’t the problem instance that goes on around the web, mostly because:

    1. None of the mentioned fixes worked in my case.
    2. I feel like people won’t go out of their way to update GRUB most of the time.