This is a small question I have after I accidentally unplugged my SSD which had all my partitions on it while my system was running. I had to boot from a live CD, chroot, and reinnstall grub because the bootloader was gone and I would constantly boot into BIOS.
Is this damaging to my system at all? Why does "hot-swapping" (not really hot-swapping) delete the bootloader?
Hello,
On a UEFI machine, I had the same problem recently.
Machine stopped, I removed the system disk to try to boot on a disk containing Windos7.
Since W7 wouldn't boot, I put my usual system disk back on.
Result: no more GRUB booting
I booted from an Artix Live and I used the "Detect bootable partitions" option.
There I was able to boot on my usual system and run sudo update-grub.
I guess UEFi firmware "helps" us (like systemd sometimes) ...
Either buggy implementations of the UEFI specification or flawed UEFI specifications, hehe. I still switch to BIOS instead wherever I've got a choice.
I have an ACER ES1-732 with particularly bugged / locked UEFI firmware ... >:(
But, I defeated him! 8)