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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Commonly referred to as a "smartphone"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Back in my days (late 90ies), smartphones were not a thing. I had to dual boot into Linux, face a problem, reboot into Windows, search for a solution or a package, then reboot into Linux. A second computer was very useful. But now, yeah, most issues can be solved using a smartphone.

    However I tried to format a micro SD card with an OTG cable and image it for a Raspberry Pi using my smartphone lately, and I never succeeded. My phone doesn't have an integrated micro SD card reader nor the option to format one. All the apps I found that were claiming to format SD cards did nothing but show me ads. Just another Raspberry Pi would have been more useful than a smartphone at that moment.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Did your bootloader ever fail you? Now how do you debug that?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    With boot disks. When installing an OS, it was common to have the installer ask if you wanted to create a boot disk in case anything happened to the MBR. They also came with the OS if you bought it prepackaged.

    There was also a trick that would boot a Linux system from DOS using loadlin.

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