Luckily it’s usually an easy fix if you know your way around the UEFI. Just plop grub back where it needs to be in the boot order.
Although I definitely wish Windows didn’t mess with the boot order occassionally.
Also, finally, I dual-boot and I haven’t actually had this happen in about a year now. I think maybe Microsoft finally stopped fucking around (with this one thing).
EDIT: Actually, it could be because I’m on Windows 10 and they stopped “Feature Updates” and all I get are security updates now. That could be why they stopped fucking with my boot order.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-sorry-but-no-more-feature-updates-for-windows-10
I had to put a password on my bios to get windows 10 to stop messing with my boot order.
What users consider “Features” and what Microsoft considers “Features” are wildly different. I’d say that probably played a role in it.
Honestly, the only useful “features” in Windows I’ve found in the last few years were all provided by a non-standard Microsoft app that isn’t easy to find: PowerToys.
PowerShell is nice too, but it’s not new enough to be considered a “feature” anymore.
The partition is there. It’s just that Windows overwrites the MBR as if no other operating systems could possibly exist.
It’s 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is no reason to be using MBR over GPT.
Fact check: true
Source: It happened to me.
Fact check… false?? (it’s false? did they just say fact check false? my goodness they fact checked it false! nothing’s ever false! my god!)
Is this why my grub disappeared? I didnt pay attention on my gaming pc and then a few weeks later I noticed when I wanted to boot into linux. Fucking windows.
Check your boot order in uefi, if grub is not in there, it’s evivars got deleted by a bios update, which can happen in windows depending on your motherboard vendor.
Some live usbs (I know manjaro’s does) present you the option to boot from disk, so you can get into your system without chrooting and reinstall grub + evivars.
Never happened to me and I’ve been dual booting for a couple of years already. On the other side, updating linux mint from 20 to 21 made my printer not work despite installing and reinstalling the drivers many times ( tried the driver from the official website, random scripts from GitHub, nothing works). It’s pretty dumb having to boot crapdows (it takes 20 minutes to just boot no joke and i freaking debloated that shit the day i installed it.) to print anything and it’s basically why none of my family wants to deal with linux.
Just a thought, no idea if it would work for your situation, would you be able to use a Windows vm, that way you wouldn’t have to reboot?
