Hello. I have a severe issue. I was using my computer yesterday and ran into a kernel panic blue screen, the system asked to be shut down. No I did not take a picture, yes that was a mistake. It said something about trying to kill init and that was that. I was aware that crashes could happen and decided maybe if I roll back some updates everything will be ok. The problem came later.
I could not find the bootloader in bios. No way around it, I tried unplugging and replugging the drive where the distro is, maybe something was wrong with my BIOS for some reason (nope, secure boot disabled, CSM disabled, no fast boot). I have entered with a liveusb and can see my files, everything is still there, including the boot partition. Everything looks normal, but in startup I don’t get a linux option.
Worth saying that I use Windows as well, dual boot (for games I can’t play on Linux). I tried searching through the system.journal in my @log folder but I could not see any kernel panic logs with grep.
This has happened before. I guess this is why people have fallbacks (I did as well) but I am not sure the bootloader is expected to nuke itself (mind you the files are there, it just doesn’t load.
These are the contents of bootctl (using the path of my /efi directory)
System:
Firmware: UEFI 2.70 (American Megatrends 5.17)
Firmware Arch: x64
Secure Boot: disabled
TPM2 Support: yes
Measured UKI: no
Boot into FW: supported
Current Boot Loader:
Product: systemd-boot 257.4-1-arch
Features: ✓ Boot counting
✓ Menu timeout control
✓ One-shot menu timeout control
✓ Default entry control
✓ One-shot entry control
✓ Support for XBOOTLDR partition
✓ Support for passing random seed to OS
✓ Load drop-in drivers
✓ Support Type #1 sort-key field
✓ Support @saved pseudo-entry
✓ Support Type #1 devicetree field
✓ Enroll SecureBoot keys
✓ Retain SHIM protocols
✓ Menu can be disabled
✓ Multi-Profile UKIs are supported
✗ Boot loader set partition information
Partition: n/a
Loader: └─/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
Current Entry: archiso-x86_64-linux.conf
Random Seed:
System Token: set
Exists: yes
Available Boot Loaders on ESP:
ESP: /run/media/liveuser/efi (/dev/disk/by-partuuid/c4fcae3d-f0f0-43bb-bea9-1ef12850a9e0)
File: ├─/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi (systemd-boot 257.4-1-arch)
└─/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (systemd-boot 257.4-1-arch)
Boot Loaders Listed in EFI Variables:
Title: Windows Boot Manager
ID: 0x0003
Status: active, boot-order
Partition: /dev/disk/by-partuuid/8868f6d5-2035-4138-986b-e5806940c82a
File: └─/EFI/MICROSOFT/BOOT/BOOTMGFW.EFI
Title: Windows Boot Manager
ID: 0x0004
Status: active, boot-order
Partition: /dev/disk/by-partuuid/c4fcae3d-f0f0-43bb-bea9-1ef12850a9e0
File: └─/EFI/MICROSOFT/BOOT/BOOTMGFW.EFI
Boot Loader Entries:
$BOOT: /run/media/liveuser/efi (/dev/disk/by-partuuid/c4fcae3d-f0f0-43bb-bea9-1ef12850a9e0)
token: endeavouros
Default Boot Loader Entry:
type: Reported by Boot Loader
title: archiso-x86_64-linux.conf
id: archiso-x86_64-linux.conf
source: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderEntries-4a67b082-0a4c-41cfb6c7-440b29bb8c4f (on the EFI System Partition)
My inxi -F output
System:
Host: EndeavourOS Kernel: 6.13.7-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.3 Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX B550-A GAMING v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3621
date: 01/13/2025
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1757 min/max: 550/4426 cores: 1: 1757 2: 1757 3: 1757
4: 1757 5: 1757 6: 1757 7: 1757 8: 1757 9: 1757 10: 1757 11: 1757 12: 1757
13: 1757 14: 1757 15: 1757 16: 1757
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700
XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,radeonsi,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.1-arch1.2
renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (radeonsi navi22 LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.61
6.13.7-arch1-1)
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: Logitech Webcam C270 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
Device-4: Logitech Logitech G PRO X Gaming Headset
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
API: ALSA v: k6.13.7-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I225-V driver: igc
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 58:11:22:4c:40:3d
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.26 TiB used: 177.45 GiB (7.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P3SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Acer model: SSD SA100 480GB size: 447.13 GiB
ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Lexar model: USB Flash Drive size: 7.46 GiB
type: USB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 10 GiB used: 171.2 MiB (1.7%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 33.6 C mobo: 26.5 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.53 GiB used: 3.28 GiB (21.2%)
Processes: 406 Uptime: 49m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.37
This is the output of the tree command in my /efi directory (windows’ bunch of entries removed)
.
├── 599e0f0f5daa4bcf8a13f499c3d6238a
│ ├── 6.12.33-1-lts
│ │ ├── initrd
│ │ ├── initrd-fallback
│ │ └── linux
│ └── 6.15.2-zen1-1-zen
│ ├── initrd
│ ├── initrd-fallback
│ └── linux
├── EFI
│ ├── BOOT
│ │ └── BOOTX64.EFI
│ ├── Linux
│ ├── Microsoft
│ │ ├── Boot
│ │ └── Recovery
│ └── systemd
│ └── systemd-bootx64.efi
├── loader
│ ├── entries
│ │ ├── 599e0f0f5daa4bcf8a13f499c3d6238a-6.12.33-1-lts.conf
│ │ ├── 599e0f0f5daa4bcf8a13f499c3d6238a-6.12.33-1-lts-fallback.conf
│ │ ├── 599e0f0f5daa4bcf8a13f499c3d6238a-6.15.2-zen1-1-zen.conf
│ │ └── 599e0f0f5daa4bcf8a13f499c3d6238a-6.15.2-zen1-1-zen-fallback.conf
│ ├── entries.srel
│ ├── keys
│ ├── loader.conf
│ └── random-seed
└── System Volume Information
51 directories, 128 files
I know this is a lot but please help me… Thank you