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Using Windows with WSL2 to recover your Linux

• CoolCold 2y ago
  In nutshell, by the author: I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu installation (which is on a separate SSD from the Windows installation) to 24.04 using do-release-upgrade -d, and got an error while installing the packages. When I rebooted, the OS was unbootable, but after rebooting to Windows and firing up WSL2, I was able to chroot my way to the installation. Just one apt-get-upgrade, and the problems were fixed. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/s/cUdOlw49et https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/s/cUdOlw49et
  • xk3 2y ago
    your link seems funny... I wonder if hn is doing a bad regex replace to change URLs to old.reddit. However, I was able to get construct a working links: https://old.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/1cdanu1/wsl2_saved_my_ubuntu_installation/ https://old.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/1cda...
    • CoolCold 2y ago
      Indeed...added link to the post into my comment, not sure how to fix the HN post though
    • dang 2y ago
      Ah sorry. Changed above from https://old.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/s/cUdOlw49et https://old.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/s/cUdOlw49et now.
• timetraveller26 2y ago
  "You use Linux to recover your Windows, I use Windows to fix my Linux. We are not the same."
  • CoolCold 2y ago
    One likely can go bit deeper with "I use Windows to fix my ZFS/FreeBSD", should be possible, while I've not tried it myself - https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1cf5qaq/cant_edit_etcrcconf/l1n2rdf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1cf5qaq/cant_edit_...