How to scare yourself stupid, by me
Nov. 25th, 2010 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI just fucked up the installation(s) on this computer so badly I lost the boot loader.
For those of you who are non-geeks, like me: this meant I switched the machine on and got nothing. At all. No access to any of the operating systems, which means by definition no access to anything on the machine.
Blessedly (demonstrably!) I managed to salvage the situation, by crossing my fingers and depending on other people to have been smarter than I am.
It worked, I think; I am visibly back in Linux. I should probably go and check Windows too, but it seems likely to have been salvaged.
Maybe I'll just go and drink more.
*phew*
For those of you who are non-geeks, like me: this meant I switched the machine on and got nothing. At all. No access to any of the operating systems, which means by definition no access to anything on the machine.
Blessedly (demonstrably!) I managed to salvage the situation, by crossing my fingers and depending on other people to have been smarter than I am.
It worked, I think; I am visibly back in Linux. I should probably go and check Windows too, but it seems likely to have been salvaged.
Maybe I'll just go and drink more.
*phew*