I've busted my dual boot.

[youen@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I've busted my dual boot. Again. How did I get there? Long story when I think about it.

It started when I installed Windows 7, on an old 64GB SSD, which was fine at the time. It was for the system only, I had another drive for everything else.

Then I updated to Windows 10, and soon enough 64GB wouldn't suffice, even for the system alone. So I copied the partition to another drive, increased the size a bit, and could continue to use the same install.

[youen@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Then I had to upgrade to Windows 11, and don't remember the details but it wouldn't upgrade. So I made a new install, but kept that old Windows 10 partition, just in case I would want to salvage some files later.

Then I needed more space, so I thought, hey, let's delete that old unused Windows 10 partition.

Long story short, the dual boot (Grub) was also installed on that partition 🫣

[youen@mastodon.gamedev.place]

But I didn't loose anything (yet), just have to reinstall grub, right ?🤞

I can't even really blame Microsoft on that one, I did that to myself. Excepted they could stop making bigger and bigger software. I wouldn't have to juggle with partitions. Yeah, actually, it's all Microsoft fault!

Also, each Windows reinstall breaks the dual boot 😡

[youen@mastodon.gamedev.place]

So, downloaded a live CD, burnt it on an USB key, reinstalled grub, grub works, booting windows works, my debian installation is detected by grub... annnd... fails to boot 😬

It tries to mount a partition by UUID and doesn't find it... Probably something I deleted... Surely it wasn't important, was it? 😰 I'll try to remove that from fstab...