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Hello,
Recently I made the classic stupid mistake of `rm -rf` something I shouldn't had.
I deleted the contents of the /boot/efi directory. I believe this is a mount point for another special EFI partition.
I have a live Arch USB and have attempted a couple things to recover.
I reinstalled the Linux Kernel and ran mkinitcpio and ran refind-install.
Refind-install complained about corrupted efi files. When I run extdebug it says there is a file system there with a bad super block and named lsb.
How do I reinstall or recover the necessary files? Let me know if you need any command outputs.
I also have a windows partition, is there anything I can do to get that booting again?
Last edited by Noah-Huppert (2017-08-09 15:41:41)
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I deleted the contents of the /boot/efi directory. I believe this is a mount point for another special EFI partition.
That would depend on your bootloader configuration, please provide a detailed description and include information about the relevant mountpoints and all configuration files.
If you have deleted everything on the ESP then you will have to use a Windows bootloader repair tool (ask on a Windows forum) to replace the missing files (unless you had the foresight to back them up, of course).
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Noah-Huppert wrote:I deleted the contents of the /boot/efi directory. I believe this is a mount point for another special EFI partition.
That would depend on your bootloader configuration, please provide a detailed description and include information about the relevant mountpoints and all configuration files.
If you have deleted everything on the ESP then you will have to use a Windows bootloader repair tool (ask on a Windows forum) to replace the missing files (unless you had the foresight to back them up, of course).
Thanks for the reply. After you mentioned the windows recovery option I did some more research and that looks like what I will have to do.
Thanks for the tipoff.
I've obtained a windows recovery media for my laptop from a friend. And I encountered another error. But that's a problem for another forum.
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