Hi all,
I’m having a bad day and did something colossally stupid, deleting everything from /boot/.
The system is still running. What do you think my best course of action is?
My current idea is to create a timeshift backup, reinstall debian from USB, then restore from backup in timeshift
If this won’t work or you have a better idea I would really appreciate your advice.
Thanks in advance
Annoyingly so. I once made a backup. Then to confirm it would restore the system, I deleted everything on root path. as in /
It did as told.
OK let’s reboot and verify system.
Sudo rebootCommand not found
sudo shutdownCommand not found
But it sat there with a blinking cursor on the terminal
I’m a noob, so forgive me if I’m being very ignorant here, but how on earth could that be a good idea? It sounds like “in order to see if I’ve installed these airbags correctly I shall now crash head first into this concrete bridge foundation at max speed”?
I’m assuming it’s a fresh install, so nothing of value was lost if the restore failed. But also I’ve heard attempting to delete things in
/sysand/devcan brick your computer. So it’s not a great idea.I’m not so sure your analogy works. Unless you are testing to see how fast you can bring a new test dummy into production. Or you are testing to see how fast you can install new airbags with blemishes and all.
It gave me a reason to finally run the command that <insert something amazing here> by recursively deleting everything.
It sounded like you were testing the (one and only) backup in a live environment is all.
Not to victim blame but you did put in --no-preserve-root. You had to read those instructions.😄