A grub breaking thingy happened to me too.
I was saved by having multiboot, with every OS having their own GRUB version installed. (just selected one using the motherboard’s interface)
The problem occurred when, after pacman -Syu, I read notes in the output, one of which hinted I would want to update GRUB and went - “Sure, I’ll try the new GRUB update” and ran GRUB update.
When it didn’t startup after a restart, I just used the debian’s GRUB to login to the OS in question, downgraded GRUB, reinstalled GRUB and then ran pacman -Syu again.
I feel like mine wasn’t the problem instance that goes on around the web, mostly because:
None of the mentioned fixes worked in my case.
I feel like people won’t go out of their way to update GRUB most of the time.
I have not experienced it but half of the arch users on reddit seem to have experienced it. Also it’s not a continuous problem but rather a problem with a certain arch and grub version. However the fact it happened once (to many people) means it can happen a second time
Arch breaking grub has happened to me twice. Second time I couldn’t even recover the install.
You learn a lot of good practices by using arch, eg a separate home partitjon, git repositories for your config files, maintaining a clean package tree etc. Installing Arch is also really useful for noobs like me to learn some Linux basics.
Arch DEFINITELY breaks itself. See the whole “arch update broke grub” dilemma
Have you tried it or are you just spreading misinformation ?
I was among one of the grub fiasco victims. Thank goodness they rolled it back pretty fast and I knew how to chroot.
A grub breaking thingy happened to me too.
I was saved by having multiboot, with every OS having their own GRUB version installed. (just selected one using the motherboard’s interface)
The problem occurred when, after
pacman -Syu, I read notes in the output, one of which hinted I would want to update GRUB and went - “Sure, I’ll try the new GRUB update” and ran GRUB update.When it didn’t startup after a restart, I just used the debian’s GRUB to login to the OS in question, downgraded GRUB, reinstalled GRUB and then ran
pacman -Syuagain.I feel like mine wasn’t the problem instance that goes on around the web, mostly because:
I have not experienced it but half of the arch users on reddit seem to have experienced it. Also it’s not a continuous problem but rather a problem with a certain arch and grub version. However the fact it happened once (to many people) means it can happen a second time
Arch breaking grub has happened to me twice. Second time I couldn’t even recover the install.
You learn a lot of good practices by using arch, eg a separate home partitjon, git repositories for your config files, maintaining a clean package tree etc. Installing Arch is also really useful for noobs like me to learn some Linux basics.
I use Fedora, btw.