PC: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9
Usage: Doing my 2nd year for my Bachelor in Cybersecurity
I first installed Windows (as it came with), then dualbooted it with EndeavourOS.
Shrank the windows partition in Windows Disk Manager before starting the install normally.
Never had a problem until 2-3 weeks ago when my PC crashed after starting Docker. I couldn’t restart the computer at all, nothing was powering up → sent the PC back to Lenovo for repair (without disk) → PC starts but won’t boot to EndeavourOS, no pb with Windows
So here’s what I did so far:
- check and reorder boot order (should boot to endeavour, goes straight to Windows)
- reinstalled and reconfigured grub (same as above)
- tried through systemd-boot (same as above)
- tried booting manually with the help of ventoy (F2 before selecting ISO → went to my efi file)
I booted to my endeavour but starting process was stuck on a “background” task (looping a load between 2 files) and I forced shutdown (power button pressed for 10 seconds) after 10 minutes of waiting on that background task - Can’t reboot that way, throws me in grub rescue and every partition is considered unrecocgnised with no bootable options (even the fine windows) → go out of grub rescue and can boot normally to windows
I can access everything on my Endeavour partition and back it up if necessary and I am really thinking reinstalling from scratch is my only option at this point
I gparted check the partition, no error found
I also ran pacman -Syu after chrooting just in case, still no can do, can still access all files
I’m pretty sure it tired to make a recovery dump but the recovery seems to be corrupted, I could go without the recovery.
I would like to avoid reinstalling everything out of convenience so is there a way to erase the recovery ? repair the endeavouros part ? should I just format the EFI boot partition and reinstall grub on it from scratch (never touched the EFI partition so far outside of commands like grub-install) ?
If I have to install from scratch, could you point out a good list of things to backup in addition to home ?