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Hi, my system doesn't boot anymore after I updated today morning (around 7:00 UTC) and tried to reboot afterwards. I didn't read the pacman output , sorry.
When booting only the boot selection shows up (same as pressing Esc), not even the boot loader.
And most worryingly I can't use cryptsetup to access my disk from a arch life stick. I don't understand how this could happen. Do you have any ideas how I can proceed?
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 641.6M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sda 8:0 1 1.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 1 711M 0 part /run/archiso/bootmnt
└─sda2 8:2 1 68M 0 part
nvme0n1 259:0 0 476.9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 296M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 1.2G 0 part
It seems like the /root partition is missing from lsblk?
System setup:
* Installed via the Guided Installer (installed mid to end May this year)
* Systemdboot
* Encrypted root partition
Last edited by strct (2021-08-21 22:22:35)
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What does fdisk/parted tell you about the partition layout?
What is the 1.2GB patition supposed to be? There at all? Swap?
Did you by any chance also recently play around w/ the partition table ("I need more swap space")?
Be super-careful when writing anything to the disk, ideally dump the disk into an image on a different drive and play around on that only.
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I noticed today that it is totally my fault. Thanks for helping, I started to backup the disk, but aborted when I found out that I won't be able to recover anything.
My mistake was a dd with my ssd as target instead of the micro sd card I meant to overwrite (for a raspberry pi) .
Most of my data is accessible (except for some parts from the last week, which is ok). but will look into real backups now
Last edited by strct (2021-08-21 20:05:49)
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Good to hear, I'll admit that even after maaaaaany years, dd on device nodes still scares the shit out of me and I double and triple check that the nodes really are what I think they are. On the upside, I've never nuked devices this way ;-)
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
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