this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
1519 points (96.0% liked)

linuxmemes

21378 readers
1994 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
    •  

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    poopsmith@lemmy.world
    zephyr@lemmy.world
    rtxn@lemmy.world
    1519
    Windows eats partitions (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 year ago by drbi@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
    206 comments fedilink hide all child comments
     
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Not really if you have a bootloader like refind it will look for other EFIs and list them. Makes for a really clean set up

    [–] Wurlitzer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    The bootloader resides in an eeprom on the motherboard or something?

    [–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Kinda, theres actually multiple chained together. All of them handing control over to software more complicated than the last. The end goal is to load and hand control over to a kernal on stored on a writable storage media. The one on the eeprom is the first one (the BIOS).

    Thanks for coming to my ted talk.