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    [โ€“] grandma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Or you can use nixos and boot into the last working configuration (assuming your bootloader is working)

    [โ€“] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Or Guix

    And honestly when grub is your bootloader. The only thing that you canโ€™t fix in grub is if you forget the crypto-module and canโ€™t do cryptomount (hd0,msdos1); insmod normal; normal

    [โ€“] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

    Or Arch with snapper and either refind-btrfs or grub-btrfs.

    This is a solved problem; on some distros it's not even an optional install; it's just set up automatically.

    Before refind-btrfs, I used my phone to download and burn rescue ISOs on demand, because it had become so infrequent a need. The last time I broke my system was replacing the root NVMe with a larger one; I dd'ed the old onto the new and missed a UUID change. It must have been a half dozen years since the previous time.

    My systems got a lot more stable when I changed to a rolling release distro.