Have 2 exams tomorrow, wanted to study and seeing this message from my computer does not help
Posted by TrueBonner414@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 24 comments
"Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck."
I really wanted to punch my laptop screen.
But I was eventually able to fix it after 2 hrs of debugging.
turns out I had a ghost bootloader that was hard coding a specific UUID and it took me so long to figure out why it was doing that. I can finally study now.
But FUCK windows I still love Linux.
also I do have windows as a boot entry cause our uni wants us to use only windows specific softwares and shit. Absolutely fucking disgusting.
Glad-Weight1754@reddit
This kind of cope is not normal mate.
mina86ng@reddit
It is absolutely normal to not abandon something after encountering just a single issue with it.
Glad-Weight1754@reddit
I was replying to "fuck windows" part that you forgot. That's a cope.
mina86ng@reddit
Cope regarding what exactly?
enderfx@reddit
That you can no longer boot Linux but you need to include a fuck windows for some reason
Glad-Weight1754@reddit
Are you blind? He said "I have exams tomorrow, my linux failed, but still fuck windows" how is it not a cope? Software can break, why do you need to involve a 3rd party to rationalise your choices?
Additional-Simple248@reddit
Ehh, Windows is just as likely to encounter an issue like this and can be even harder to fix.
I’ve had to completely rebuild the Windows bootloader, going as far as deleting the boot partition and recreating it manually, copying the required files in from elsewhere.
Being able to fix an issue like this can give a little satisfaction high of having that level of control over your machine, reinforcing the perks of Linux over Windows.
Glad-Weight1754@reddit
WOW. Some of you really need to grow up.
enderfx@reddit
Linux is amazing, but this attitude is very frequent in this subreddit (for obvious reasons). However it reminds me a bit of teenager attitude/tantrum.
Glad-Weight1754@reddit
Yeah i know :). Hardware fails, software breaks and thats normal. There is no need to involve 3rd party to rationalise something.
untrained9823@reddit
Stop trying to be cool and stop using Arch.
Charming_Bison9073@reddit
I mean they chose to use it, you're in no place to tell them to use something else unless they ask for it.
untrained9823@reddit
Well, a stable distro probably wouldn't break this much.
Charming_Bison9073@reddit
Just because the OS is more difficult to learn doesn't nessecarily mean it's unstable.
jesseschalken@reddit
Its okay, Linux just cost you 2 hours of your life, you are allowed to be mad.
That said my Windows PC cost me 4 hours yesterday to repair a BSOD using a Windows installer USB, so swings and roundabouts.
porfiriopaiz@reddit
The "good luck" part lol.
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Selth@reddit
It'd be good to use a live-CD to check if the fs is correct. You probably only need to redo the grub2 deployment if the partition is intact.
Double_A_92@reddit
Ah the classic Linux experience. Randomly booting into some shell after an update.
quicksand8917@reddit
At this stage of the boot process the "real root" should not be mounted at /, but something like /newroot (use ls to find the correct name). After mounting there and exit the boot should continue normally. Once in your system you may need to repair your intitram or kernel boot params.
eras@reddit
You're probably not in the "new root" after that mount command. Actually never thought of doing it that way, I usually just mount it to a different directory and then use
chrootor better yetpivot_root.I think in your case
cd /might fix the issue. Although if thatexecactually solves something, then I wonder how come it didn't just work out-of-the-box? Maybe some normal single user shell would be sufficient to look into your problem.LoreBadTime@reddit
Data is still on SSD, if you didn't encrypt anything or have the encryption key you could try with a live Linux distro to get back your data. After that, just reinstall everything
Tquilha@reddit
There is something wrong with your boot drive.
Get a live version of your Linux distro, build a bootable USB drive with it and use that to boot your PC. Backup any important files to an external medium and run some diagnostics on your SSD.
If it shows OK, just reinstall your OS and go from there. The whole thing takes a couple of hours, tops.
Aetherik_editz@reddit
Download some linux environment like caelestia, or others you are capable see this if you are on arch
https://youtu.be/_LdYU8CiTh0?si=Zd8OOMNQOTvlg9eM