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Uuh grub? (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by WILSOOON@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?

also how does one stop the rapid mitosis of fedora's in grub, they keep multiplying

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[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 92 points 7 months ago

How does one accidently holds down the down arrow for 40 minutes?

[-] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Til we have a sillicon valley sub

Edit: nvm that's reddit

[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 34 points 7 months ago

Not sure. But he does have a down arrow imprint on his forehead.

[-] WILSOOON@programming.dev 35 points 7 months ago

aang aint got shit on me

[-] nyan@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

You don't have a cat, do you?

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

Cats do it on purpose, not accidentally.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 7 months ago

I once crashed gdm by accidentally leaving some object on top of my keyboard which depressed some keys for hours.

[-] WILSOOON@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

doing the dishes and browing lemmy

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Not sure about the down arrow in particular but I have seen objects (e.g. a corner of a book) accidentally lie on a key at the edge of a keyboard before.

[-] Naminreb@kbin.social 66 points 7 months ago

You’ve reached the end of Linux.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

GODDAMN SPOILERS

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago

Linux Kill Screen

[-] LolaCat@lemmy.ca 41 points 7 months ago

Did you replace your BIOS with Minecraft’s texture files? Classic mistake, I’ve done it a dozen times! /s

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 41 points 7 months ago

Can you replicate it? If you can, you can create a bug report. If not, it's probably a one-time thing where the stars alligned and the conditions where just right for it to happen.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago

What are you doing step grub?

[-] uiiiq@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What the fuck you just killed me

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one 19 points 7 months ago

This is GRUB’s final warning before you dig too deep in the OS list. Never hold ⬇️ for more than 45 minutes. If you do, make sure you have punch tape with a bootloader available or you'll have to manually enter machine code instructions to get your computer back up.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago

rapid mitosis

As in you are seeing multiple boot entries? It's likely one entry per kernel version that you have installed. It doesn't happen often these days any more, but in some situations it's handy to be able to revert to a previous kernel if for example third party modules break.

[-] WILSOOON@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

its per fedora version for some reason, and i dont think that such a fallback would even work since fedora removes the previous kernel core and most other garbadge from what ive seen

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't know about Fedora, but Debian keeps at least the previous version. However, that's about it. There remain only 4 (2 normal + 2 recovery) GRUB entries and the additional ones vanish automatically during the uninstallation procedure.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago
[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 7 months ago

Prolly hardware tho

[-] Hubi@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

That looks like RAM corruption to me.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago

More like framebuffer corruption

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

Isn't that still in system RAM at this stage in the boot process?

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The framebuffer is basically just VRAM, corruption of it is likely when experiencing graphics glitches.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

Check your video card

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 7 months ago

Never forgive. Never forget.

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Okay so this might sound kinda crazy but

I think it's broken

[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago

I had an old laptop do this some years ago and it was because the graphics card was broken. I had dual graphic card and found a way to disable the broken one in bios (dedicated one, could continue on intel graphics) but the computer was too old to reliably use much longer and it died even more a few months later.

[-] WILSOOON@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

This one isstill perfectly fine, just has the brain damage of an nvida card

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Solution: don't hold the down arrow for 40 minutes

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