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Ironically, the first thing I do is the opposite. BIOS boot has been simple and reliable for decades, and EFI remains a horrible mess.

Remember how some people have had issues with windows destroying booting of linux

The MBR is tiny (you could even write out all the entries on paper as a backup, like I became accustomed to many years ago whenever I partitioned a disk) --- and restoring it is also equally straightforward. I don't even know where to begin with troublshooting EFI's horribly overengineered boot entries and NVRAM variables...




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