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?

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
    3·
    1 year ago

    Common steps to fix you system:

    1. Get an Endeavour installer (Arch would probably also work but best to stick with the distro you installed). You can boot the Slax USB drive to get into Linux and make an installer drive on another USB drive.
    2. Boot into a live environment
    3. Either use arch-chroot or chroot and a bunch of (bind) mounts to get a shell within the context of the distro on your disk
    4. Let pacman do its thing
    5. Update initramfs for good measure, reinstall your bootloader
    6. Reboot, pray

    If your bootloader is still there but just doesn’t show up in the boot menu, try to find an option to boot an .efi file (“boot from file” or similar). If you can launch your bootloader manually and it works, reinstall it or manually re-register it using efibootmgr

    • silasmariner@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      Oh my God. Flashbacks to the first time I fucked up my Arch installation like a decade ago. This is a solid run-through of a very character-building exercise 😂

    • 257m@lemmy.mlOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      I couldn’t figure out how to mount /dev/sda1 and did pacman -Syu and then I mounted it once I figured it out now pacman says there is nothing to do.