Accidentally bricked my Linux system, help
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Something i recently learned:
Your live usb does not need to be the same distro as your main. (And in retrospect that makes total sense but i never realized)
My arch install broke and could not get timeshift to roll back using the arch live usb. But a ubuntu-desktop live usb worked flawlessly.
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It's been awhile, but I believe the correct process here is to boot with a live USB and repair your distro from there.
I think the tool is called 'boot-repair' for Ubuntu distros.
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Yes, for data recovery you really just need something to access the drives.
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That's the thing tho, I have no idea what happened lol, I just let it upgrade, it did it's thing, and then it imploded on itself for some reason, don't know what even happened.
Are backups supposed to show up in the bios? Cause there's nothing there, just "Ubuntu" and "Linux Firmware Updater" are all I see in the bios, what am I looking out for here?
Okay, can you elaborate more on that please? How do I do any of that exactly? Just so I don't screw up anything by accident.
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Good clarification and advice.
There are so many considerations when "reparing" an installation, that I would definitely suggest a reinstall here.
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I'd say Live-CD/USB and use the recovery mode to fix GRUB. Grub has to appear so thet's the first issue. If you're lucky it's the only one and you can skip the more complicated steps.
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I really hope so man, it'd really suck if the thing died on me like this. Alright I'm gonna try to sort out the USB thing.
I'd rather repair it as it's my main system, so I definitely don't wanna lose everything on it. Although the drive is encrypted, is that gonna be a problem for me? How do I go about all of this exactly?
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You mention timeshift, did you restore to the working snapshot after selecting it in grub, then reboot AGAIN?
Booting a snapshot, does not restore from it, you need to open timeshift, restore the snapshot, then boot it up a second time (this time without selecting it in grub).
Otherwise, you didn't really restore it, you just booted into it, and if you re-attempted the broken update, messed it up, too.
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https://www.system-rescue.org/disk-partitioning/Repairing-a-damaged-Grub/
I would also suggest, if you get grub back, to choose the 2nd kernel version in the list. The latest/top one will probably put you back to your broken state.
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Check out Time Shift for your next install. Saved my ass on countless occasions, and ended up being an incredible learning tool as it completely removed any fear I had of breaking things.
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Yup... I recently booted into an EndeavorOS live USB, just so I could use the partitioning tools that come pre-installed, before rebooting and reinstalling Bazzite, because I was really hating the methods the Bazzite installer has for it.
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Keep it up, this is how you become one of those "experts"
Can you post some more info on how far you've gotten?
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It wont be a problem because from the Live USB you can mount the encrypted drive in the file explorer app (Dolphin on KDE) after supplying the encryption password.
