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[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is anyone able to read the full article? Is this a boot loop OS detection feature?

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I saw in another thread: sometimes upon booting, the updater has just enough time to grab the fixed update before BSOD so keep trying.

I saw some SysAdmin threads as it was happening say to boot into safe mode, navigate to the affected file, and delete it.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

boot into safe mode, navigate to the affected file, and delete it.

Yeah. That's the easiest, unless the drive is encrypted.

I imagine the folks going for the 15 reboots approach are doing so because it's easier than waiting in line for their IT help desk to deliver them their boot encryption key.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

it's easier than waiting in line for their IT help desk to deliver them their boot encryption key

Especially when the encryption keys are all stored on a Windows server that's bootlooped

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I haven't been affected by this personally, just curious at this point what the variables are hah

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a race condition in a kernel driver. Try it enough times and maybe you can get clear of it once without triggering.