It blew up in my face (might as well have)

Long time no see everyone! Thank you for all the help you have given me thus far. I know it’s been so long since I’ve been here in the forums, but that’s mostly because:

  1. Everything’s been smooth sailing, not a single problem on my laptop!
  2. Life’s been very very busy and my free time has been, as most of us, spent on either sleeping or watching funny videos online.

So then, after 3 or so months of not really hitting the ol’ “yay” on the terminal, I decided today that it’s perhaps time to go for an upgrade. I do just that, type in “yay” and hit Enter. Everything went well, except when screen went black, and I couldn’t boot into it anymore. Luckily, I have an old windows 10 on a separate SSD in this thinkpad x270, and booted into it instead. I had to physically pull out the SSD containing Endeavour because it just wouldn’t go past grub. It then booted Windows normally, so I’m suspecting it wasn’t a hardware problem. I know it’s very unhelpful of me to not have much details but this is the best I can do at the moment.

These were what I can remember were installed on the top of my head:
Firefox (official)
pamac (AUR)
steam (flatpak)
Freeoffice (I forgot)
VLC (flatpak)
a few biostatistics tools
random fonts and colors

I have a Thinkpad x270 with a 6th gen core i5 with 16gb ram.

I know it’s unfair of me to come to you guys with a problem with so little details, but, I’m thinking that posting this seemingly random, wild, unfortunate situation might help provide a clue to a possibly bigger problem.

I have a spare SSD that I’ll reinstall Endeavour OS in, and thankfully I’ve fully backed up all my important data.

Stay safe everyone!

would be better to put the endeavourOS disk back in and boot up a live environment. arch-chroot into the system and grab a copy of the pacman log that can give a major heads up on what exactly got updated and what could have gone wrong. also may want to post some hardware info like GPU?

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I will most certainly try that, thank you!

I’m using an old thinkpad x270, core i5 7200U with 16gb of ram, with integrated graphics. My SSD housing the Endeavor OS is a Samsung Evo 1tb SATA

Is the problem that GRUB isn’t finding your Endeavour install (ie- booting into the grub> prompt), or that you’re getting a black screen once it’s selected?

If you can at least get in there, I would try hitting ctrl+alt+F2 or F3 and see if you can log in without an x session