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I accidently rebooted during pacman update and now my system dosen't show option to boot into endeavour os. Systemd just shows option to boot into firmware interface please help! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've lost everything and I don't know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn't pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Boot to a liveUSB of the distro of your choice, create a chroot to your install, and then run a Pacman update from there.

Googling “Arch rescue chroot” should point you in the right direction. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Will this work from slax linux? I am sorry if I seem like I can't fix the issue myself seeing as you have given the resources for me to do so but what would be the exact steps to do that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never used Slax but it should, boot the liveUSB and enter terminal.

The general process is:

Boot to live Slax
Mount your install
Mount /proc, /sys, /dev
Enter the chroot
Check if networking is working
Attempt to run commands in your chroot
Exit the chroot
Unmount everything
Boot back to your install

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It should work, afaik chroot always use the binaries of the system you chrooted, so you will be able to use pacman normally. I don´t remember if chroot will mount the efi partition by default, you can do this before go to chroot (again, I'm have some memory issues but I believe that /dev does not mount as well if you just use chroot, this is why arch have arch-chroot that mounts this kind of stuff but you can mount before so it should work).

Assuming you are using systemd boot on efi partition (that is likelly if you have not changed the installer defaults), what I would do:

On your live CD run sudo fdisk -l to get what is the efi partition, usually will be /dev/sdb1 since sda will be your usb, you should be able to see something like that.
Then you will mount your endevour partition, in your situation should be sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/mydisk but check your fdisk command output.
Now you will have to mount the efi partition sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mydisk/efi
Then you can use chroot /mnt/mydisk/ and proceed to do a pacman -Syu, this should trigger the post scripts that create the kernel images on the efi partition.

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