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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What happened to my computer (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by joel_feila to c/[email protected]

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I now see this when i boot up. I just restarted my pc and now i get this.

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[–] mvirts 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Dont forget to play around with grub while its like this. Tab completion works great, try '(' the press tab to maybe see your disks as grub sees them. I think help lists commands and most of them are harmless.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dont forget to play around with grub while its like this. Tab completion works great, try ‘(’ the press tab to maybe see your disks as grub sees them.

Is this a joke like sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / to speed up the PC? Because it kinda sounds that way.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. It's a little shell that you can explore with commands. If needed, you can mount and boot your OS just with commands in the grub shell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The process for this is that you want to set your prefix to the /boot partition in the (hd1, gpt1) syntax (use ls) and then load the "normal" module. From then on, you should have regular GRUB again and should be able to boot your OS to properly fix GRUB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like you'd love configuring network hardware then! You can get a peek into that in Linux with frr since it has a mode to configure your linux machine like you've just SSHed into a Catalyst switch, or just hop on ebay and buy a 20 year old switch for peanuts