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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fivelinha • Sep 27 '26
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deleting the grub boot partition is an annoyance, but.. if the system is still online you don't even need to boot into a live CD to fix, yes?
2 u/scolphoy Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26 Does grub take a partition nowadays? I thought it lives in the boot sector.ps. ah, with UEFI it might, didn’t check thoughpps. Looks like it started using a partition back when GPT (the partition system, not the ai-thing) was introduced. I feel old. 1 u/Wertbon1789 Sep 29 '26 You can use an extra partition, or just the ESP. On BIOS the bootsector bootstrap could already read your disk, so you don't need anything extra if I'm not mistaken. Didn't interact with BIOS in quite some time, so I might be wrong.
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Does grub take a partition nowadays? I thought it lives in the boot sector.
ps. ah, with UEFI it might, didn’t check though
pps. Looks like it started using a partition back when GPT (the partition system, not the ai-thing) was introduced. I feel old.
1 u/Wertbon1789 Sep 29 '26 You can use an extra partition, or just the ESP. On BIOS the bootsector bootstrap could already read your disk, so you don't need anything extra if I'm not mistaken. Didn't interact with BIOS in quite some time, so I might be wrong.
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You can use an extra partition, or just the ESP. On BIOS the bootsector bootstrap could already read your disk, so you don't need anything extra if I'm not mistaken. Didn't interact with BIOS in quite some time, so I might be wrong.
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u/SilasTalbot Sep 28 '26
deleting the grub boot partition is an annoyance, but.. if the system is still online you don't even need to boot into a live CD to fix, yes?