• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Debian is also able to do this after an update, as it disables the os-prober by default. You have to manually re-enable it (prevent it from being disabled).

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but in that case it isn’t nuking the boot files required to boot Windows, it’s just clearing the boot entry list and reenabling os-prober and updating grub is enough to fix it. It’s like a 1 minute process tops.

      Windows is capable of permanently nuking your Linux boot partition, overwriting it entirely and you’d have to boot into a live iso and take several more steps to fix it unless you keep a backup of your boot partition.