Using Windows with WSL2 to recover your Linux

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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

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/1cda...

Indeed...added link to the post into my comment, not sure how to fix the HN post though

Ah sorry. Changed above from https://old.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/s/cUdOlw49et now.

"You use Linux to recover your Windows, I use Windows to fix my Linux. We are not the same."

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_...

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