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Urm, tried booting my laptop back up and it’s broken again…

No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

What the fuck am I doing wrong? I only installed it today. For fuck’s sake, guess I’ll give Arch a try, maybe I’ll be able to not break it.

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All the configs that I did today though, and my writing for one of my draft blosts hasn’t been pushed to git yet. That’s why I was booting in now. :( FML.

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@orbitalmartian it seems like an issue with the bootloader. Try booting from your live USB, install grub (and os-prober if you multi-boot) and run grub-mkconfig.
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@getimiskon alright. It installed alright though and I haven’t had an issue before. Maybe something I installed is messing with Grub.
This laptop has only run Linux, well it ran Windows once but since I switched it to Linux the drive is wiped and has been just a single distro install.

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@orbitalmartian if you just installed the OS and nothing seems to work after a reboot, it might be it.
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@getimiskon The ISO I have flashed doesn’t have a live environment but has a rescue mode so I’m trying that, else I’ll have to flash a nee ISO to my USB.

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@getimiskon I think that it is completely fucked as in rescue mode, it doesn’t even want to recognise the drive, it gives 3 drive names, I have 1, and when I go into the one it is, run the force GRUB install, it fails with no helpful error message, just says “This is a fatal error”.

Arch it is, I guess.
14 days on a distro isn’t bad is it?

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@orbitalmartian hmm that's weird, first reboot? did you configure your grub weirdly?

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@sotolf Didn’t touch it… I installed this morning, it rebooted fine after the install, I then just went about my day as I would, installed things here and there, touch app configs, nothing todo with Grub.

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@orbitalmartian oh, it seems that something got really messed up then. Oh well... Arch it is then. By the way, what distro was it?
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@getimiskon Debian… the most stable there is but I managed to break something.

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@orbitalmartian yeah, shit happens. What version? Stable, testing? Don't tell me Sid neocat_googly_shocked
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