this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
24 points (96.2% liked)

Melbourne

1862 readers
57 users here now

This community is a place created for the people of Melbourne and Victoria. We are a positive, welcoming and inclusive community. We might not agree about everything, but we always strive to stay civil and respectful.

The focus of our discussions is based around things that effect Victoria, but we are also free to discuss our local perspective on wider issues. Or head to the regular Daily Random Discussion thread to talk about anything.

Full Community Guidelines

Ongoing discussions, FAQs & Resources (still under construction)

Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)

Feedback & Suggestions

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

It's setup to use GRUB I'm pretty sure. After windows started refusing to boot, GRUB/Ubuntu started yelling about the environment block being too small, although it didn't prevent Ubuntu from starting up I fixed it anyways by deleting and recreating it (following this), which fixed it.

It's probably easy to fix, it's just knowing exactly what happened is probably the most complicated step lol

It really is lol. Doesn't help that windows error messages are either hyper specific (or more commonly) so vague they're next to useless with absolutely no in between. Since the error message is hard drive related, all the Microsoft support articles and forum posts are mostly suggesting that the hard drive is completely dead with no hope of recovery and to buy a new one, although since it seems to be working completely fine through Ubuntu I'm doubting that's the case