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mia
@mia

2024 is finally the year of linux gaming attempts to play halo and my entire install immediately breaks so bad even the recovery mode can’t use a keyboard


mia
@mia

all i did was a pacman -Syu and the piece of shit terrible disaster garbage fire OS flew apart on the next reboot


PolyCement
@PolyCement

sorry everyone the problem with mias computer was actually me 5 months ago giving her the wrong command to reinstall grub cos i didn't realise her efi system partition was mounted to /efi and not /boot #girlshit #wifemoment #gaylinux



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in reply to @mia's post:

If that happened as part of a system update, 99% that's the new kernel not being able to find the drivers to mount those particular filesystems. If you call up your grub menu (holding shift at boot should do the trick if yours hides by default), can you boot up an older kernel version? (It might be under an "advanced options" submenu)

lmao I've done a similar thing (twice!) where I updated via pacman -Syu, ran out of storage, rebooted, and then just couldn't boot back in bc for some reason pacman just straight up deleted my kernel...... I had to boot into a live usb boot to mount the partition and install the kernel back
I have no idea if this is the problem you have but if you're missing a vmlinuz-* in /boot then I can help. otherwise good luck

You can log into your install from the installer disk.
Mount the drives and setup wifi like you did when you installed arch, then run arch-chroot /mnt and pacman -Syu linux-lts to install the long-term support kernel. That miiight fix the issue, assuming that's the package that broke the install.

I can't help you, but if you'll allow me to trauma dump for a little...

my arch almost consistently kernel-crashes while pacman -Syu'ing (similarly with an aur helper). consistently as in: this happened like 3 times in this month and a million times while fixing those. and since pacman -Syu may update the kernel image, almost every time this required booting with live cd and reinstalling the broken boot...

I thought that we fixed that (by disabling PCIe power saving, so ssd does not spontaneously disconnect) but today it happened again 🥲

Doubt this is the issue but I'll bring it up anyways because I have no background here and this happened to me while I was clueless (I still am): Could this be an fstab issue? If your external hard drives paths are hardcoded in fstab there's a chance that the drive just Doesn't Mount In Time and your computer supershits itself unless those drives are unplugged