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Thanks Scimmia and WorMzy for the feedback, I only gave dd mode two tries as a sanity check. I'll give it another go on Sunday. Let's hope I don't need to visit my laptops documentation. Have a good weekend folks.
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Often you need to use a hotkey at boot to select a different drive to boot from.
Acer laptops use F12 for that.
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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F12 worked. Sanity restored for now. Thanks all. Let's hope this goes well.
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It worked. Thank you all, this thread was hugely helpful.
I managed to figure out why my laptop wasn't dual booting before (F12 on start up) and upgrade most packages.
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Sorry for bumping this old thread, but I ran something like `pacman -Sy; pacman -S expat` and broke a huge chunk of my system. It's a server, so booting with a live USB or something would be really annoying.
I knew I only messed up this single package, so I checked the pacman log to see which version to downgrade to:
# grep "upgraded expat" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -n1
[2022-12-14T12:18:49+0100] [ALPM] upgraded expat (2.4.8-1 -> 2.5.0-1)
Then, I created a temporary directory and extracted the old package into it (since `pacman -U` was also broken...)
# mkdir /tmp/expat
# cd /tmp/expat
# cp /var/cache/pacman/pkg/expat-2.4.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst .
# tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf ./expat-2.4.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
I copied the /tmp/expat/usr directory contents into /usr:
# cp --backup=numbered -vRT ./usr /usr
Finally, I crossed my fingers and ran `pacman -Suy`, which worked. Such a relief. It's the yearly reminder that `-Sy` is not a good habit.
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Closing this old solved thread.
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