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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 24 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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 1 year ago (3 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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried chroot /media/sda2/@/root and it tells me /bin/bash not found.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you boot to an Ubuntu iso, you can use arch-chroot to set up everything you need correctly. Done this many times when I borked my Arch boot process