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Written by M. Forester on 2025-01-19 at 15:54

I have no idea what happened, but my #PopOS installation will no longer boot. From what I can tell it doesn't find any disks, because there aren't any I can see in initramfs. I booted into a live system and checked that both disks are there. I was able to mount my system partition perfectly fine. It does have the expected UUID as well and I could print the one page I wanted without any issues.

I tried chroot and update-initramfs, but it didn't help.

I used and updated the laptop yesterday. 😩

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Written by Tyrion 🦜 on 2025-01-19 at 16:02

@mforester

Have you checked the help guides at System76's website?

Link: https://support.system76.com/articles/bootloader/

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Written by M. Forester on 2025-01-19 at 16:33

@TyrionTargaryen those are the steps I was following. I did run the grub commands, because apparently the systems too old for UEFI, but I could have sworn that it wasn't using grub. 🤔

The one thing that had me puzzled was that I couldn't find any boot partition whatsoever. But those boot entries and the entire configuration has to be somewhere.

I'll go back to it when I find more time. Now that there's a Debian installed on another disk, I can at least get into an OS and to all my files.

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Written by Tyrion 🦜 on 2025-01-19 at 16:50

@mforester

Gotcha. I'm not at the computer yet, but I can try to help you in a few hours, if you want. (I'm not an expert, just a Pop! user.)

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Written by M. Forester on 2025-01-19 at 17:32

@TyrionTargaryen thank you. I don't think I'll find time for it this evening, but thanks for the offer. 🙂

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Written by THOPAN :mastodon: on 2025-01-19 at 16:57

@mforester Good luck with restoring your PopOS! system, mate.

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Written by M. Forester on 2025-01-19 at 18:17

@thopan thank you. 🙂

I was just thinking if I should wipe everything and install it from scratch.

There's another SSD in the laptop that's the same size and empty. 😅

I just need to install the OS and copy a handful of files over. It's probably much faster than finding and fixing the error.

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Written by THOPAN :mastodon: on 2025-01-19 at 18:34

@mforester Definitely. I did it a short while back after my audio setup got borked, too. I guess it's the pragmatic way.

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Written by M. Forester on 2025-01-19 at 18:54

@thopan pragmatic, but unsatisfying. 😅

But then again, I found a solution with which I can keep my files and it's by far the easiest. And there was something wrong with the config anyway, because software installed as flatpaks would sometimes just not show up in the launcher.

I've also been thinking about trying something other than Pop OS, but I've gotten so used to the tiling manager and it's hotkeys. 😁

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Written by THOPAN :mastodon: on 2025-01-19 at 18:56

@mforester Yeah, the tiling is a neat feature without using i3 or some other dedicated tiling wm. I use some GNOME extension for that.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7065/tiling-shell/

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