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Introductory Blog

Hello, im Marel Beqo, this will be where I share my progress with the rest of you as well as the helpful things that I learn along the way.

From the blog cs@worcester – Marels Blog by mbeqo and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

What’s glued for the goose

Hello there. This is a blog about the sticky things that keep stuff together.

Recently I had the chance to reapply a layer of GRUB, which is a kind of glue called a boot loader. When GRUB stays sticky, it will hold your hardware and software mess in a neat little bundle. But when this glue comes unstuck, the surfaces just don’t fit together the same.

My mess was quite unstuck. Turning on the hardware just kept bringing me back to the BIOS.

How is a fan of glues to restick what’s unstuck?

First, you can make a bootable USB of your flavor of operating system. When you plug it in and turn on your hardware, I recommend pressing all of the keys at the same time as fast as you can: this is the only guaranteed way to find the hidden BIOS button. After you’ve taken matters into your own hands or your computer has otherwise dropped you into the BIOS, you may have to move this little USB device higher in the boot priority.

When our hardware succumbs to the live USB, we can take a look at what partitions we have access to.

lsblk

In my case, I had a root directory partition called nvme0n1p2, and an EFI partition named nvme0n1p1. As a user of Arch Linux (no applause is necessary), the next step let me hop on over to my unbootable-from root directory.

mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt

And then all that’s left to apply the glue is to mount the EFI partition and set GRUB back up.

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Of course, no two surfaces are the same, so your journey back to the land of Adhesion may require a slightly different gluing process.

The charm of GRUB is its malleability. It’s hard to appreciate life without a few glues that fail just often enough to keep you on your toes.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Tasteful Glues by tastefulglues and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Intro Blog Post

From the blog CS@Worcester – CS- Raquel Penha by raqpenha and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Why Blogger and not WordPress

WordPress put a bunch of numbers on my “website” and wouldn’t allow me to remove it. How dare they not give me exactly what I want completely free of charge.