Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 11:02:34 +0100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <v9sgrr$2bgqj$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v9n1og$1cag8$1@dont-email.me> <sIEoyI.4u4o@yahoo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Injection-Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:02:35 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6e92e761bd4dd68be1d2b9cb3e9ac733";
	logging-data="2474835"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+vvG0fDL5im2sst/xU0Zf8"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:nfdUL3ZRuGigAVlR9VYxkJGUTA0=
Bytes: 2107

On 2024-08-18, Jack Strangio wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:12:09 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> 
>> > That being said, if you're not an expert, avoid dual boot please.
>> > Especially if Windows is one of the OSses.
>> 
>> I have heard others recommend against dual boot, too. Mistakes will likely 
>> lead to neither OS being able to boot; this is typically easy to fix if 
>> you know your way around a tool like SystemRescue, but if not, it can be 
>> fatal.
>
> Nah. You backup your EFI partition daily along with the rest of your bits.
>
> If there is a disaster, you can revert your boot-manager to the way it was
> last night with 'dd' and about 10 seconds.
>
> Having booted up the system, you can repair it easily.

This is probably the chicken-and-egg aspect of it. Probably the best is
having an isolated (removable or otherwise unplugged) bootable medium
ready in case it's needed.

I guess the main risk with multiple boot scenarios involving Windows is
Windows wiping it out on purpose. (Or perhaps out of incompetence? I
mean, it's said not to attribute to malice...)

-- 
Nuno Silva