Excellent advice. Both the backup and the ‘bare metal clone’. I doubt that I could have said it better myself…
I’m also becoming more and more in favor of running a virtual machine. I’ve got one on my work laptop and my personal laptop, and I might just create another
one on the personal laptop in which to run ‘everything’ (other than the virtual machine which I’m using for developing some software).
Rusty
From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
On Behalf Of Bob Elzer
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:12 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: installed livecd to boot sector?
Michael, I don't know how to fix the current problem but I can help you from getting into these situations in the future.
Backup Backup Backup
Before you start making changes to your OS, you need to make a bare metal backup.
The easiest way to accomplish this is to clone the OS drive.
After you clone, then if you screw up the Os you can just do a reverse clone and you are back to where you started.
Also you need to stop doing open heart surgery, for an ingrown toenail. If you're having issues with darktable, post a question about the problem, upgrading the OS seems like overkill.
I've mentioned this before, you should look at running your system in a virtual machine.
Then before making changes to the system you can take a snapshot, make the changes and then test them. If things go wrong, you just reboot to the previous snapshot, if all is fine after a week, you can delete the old snapshot.
You could also clone the virtual system and do testing in the clone before updating the original.
Backup Backup Backup
If you had a bare metal backup, you'd be up and running already.
Hope this helps for the future.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 8:22 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote: