Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.message-squaremessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1302arrow-down1message-squareA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square117fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecmhe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 hours agoIt is more about being lazy. In most cases, where you havn’t destroyed your filesystem, you can just boot another Linux from a USB stick, mount your filesystems to /mnt, chroot into it, and then investigate and fix there. See the Archlinux wiki, even if you do not use Archlinux, it is great: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot
It is more about being lazy.
In most cases, where you havn’t destroyed your filesystem, you can just boot another Linux from a USB stick, mount your filesystems to /mnt, chroot into it, and then investigate and fix there.
See the Archlinux wiki, even if you do not use Archlinux, it is great: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot