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Whenever i need to use windows, i leave it on a separate drive, and then just point a rEFInd entry to it. It really frustrates me, that Windows just expects full advocacy over your hardware, and performs changes like this without any warning

i've had both windows and linux mess-up dual boot setups.. so i started keeping them separate. either different systems, or run in a vm.
- My issue is that when linux fucks up my bootloader it's usually by mistake / bug. If windows does it it's pretty much deliberate
- VMWare workstation is well worth the £££. I work in a Windows VM that is fully compliant with all the business requirements and when I run it full screen I don't feel like it's a VM.
I dualboot with separate efi partitions. Does it happen that windows fucks up anothr efi partition?

Arch moment

(no I will never forget that one time they borked the grub package and there was no notification of it in the newsfeed)

I switched to systemd boot when that happened, and it's been so smooth ever since
- I just switched to Fedora and been happy with it for ~2 yrs
- Untill there's a bug in systemd-boot on arch...

Seems familiar. Did you by any chance also not update the copy of grub in your EFI system partition since you installed it? Then you need to do that and afterwards everything works fine again.

While you are at it add a netboot.xyz EFI entry to fix that kind of stuff without a USB stick or your own network boot server.

I love my bootloader https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme

    
grub> set root=(...)
grub> linux /vmlinuz root=...
grub> initrd /initrd.img
grub> boot

Now draw the rest of the owl.

pacman -Syyu?

Windows has a habit of deleting grub when it updates. Idk if it is just bad Microsoft programming or intentional.
- You mean I can’t have a separate partition without microsoft thinking they own everything?

This post made by the windows gang

What I'm missing? Just do update-grub.

Time to break out the system rescue USB

Btw, rEFInd detects bootloaders by itself.

Am i the only one using elilo?

I thought it had been abandoned since 2003, but not at all!
It's been abandoned since 2013.
- Ah so its only been 10 years. Perfect. Probably why nothings broken?
probably
- Am i missing anything?

Honestly, when I learned that rEFInd supports loading dxe modules natively I swapped and never looked back (NVMe boot drives on ancient computers, my beloved)