happened after i formated my storage partition. im not sure why that affected bazzites partition.
Bazzite will no longer boot up as you can see in the images
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1. what hardware
2. if there is supposed to be an error here, you might have pointed the camera at the wrong place.
3. connect a keyboard and press enter if it is stuck on that grub menu, you might have disabled the timer on the grub menu somehow.
Legion go with a 4 tb ssd upgrade not sure brand.
2 and 3?
Working on it
Had to did out a wired keyboard
stil no error there, if it doesnt count down just press enter with a wired keyboard and then fix your grub config
No idea what a grub config is lol
once youre booted up go into desktop and open the terminal and run
cat /etc/default/grub and make sure it looks like this
But i cant get it to boot
Thats what's got me here it wont boot up bazzite after i formated my storage partition from windows to try and get the storage drive to show on windows after i reinstalled windows for a different reason
Seems i fucked up the entire thing
I never told it to format the bazzzite os partition so im very confused why this happened
none of your pictures show any error though they just show the grub menu and and no countdown as it was interrupted most likely by pressing something on the keyboard. you would use the arrow keys to select the system to boot and press enter to boot into it
idk what else to say
it should have a timer, if you dont have a keyboard just hold down the power button for 10 seconds and turn it back on and dont touch anything
No timer shows
Hang on i have a video i took but ill need to compress the footage for discord to be happy...
Video uploading
ok that shows me the error.
try turn off secure boot (it being enabled after secureboot keys have somehow been cleared shows a similar error to the first boot option), if that does not help then yeah might have messed up something, it seems like it cant find the gpt partition table or something.
I would get a live boot usb of something like fedora workstation, pop os or ubuntu to try boot that and look at the partitions or try recover any data that i would not lose and move to a usb or external disk or something and just reinstall.
Okay let me check secure boot in bios settings
Alright i turned off secure boot and now trying to boot to fedora again
Eyyy its doing something!
Taking an awly long time to boot though
just wait
press esc if you want to see the boot being verbose/detailed
Kay
Huh didnt know you could do that
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Now what?
did you have automount setup for the partition/disk you messed with?
A what?
Im not sure i know i had alot of help making it work in general from this server but i can't remember what was done
because it is saying it cannot find a partition for something so something is seriously messed up
Dam
did you setup something like this?
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-mounting-secondary-drives/970
Universal Blue
Auto-Mounting Secondary Drives
WARNING! Attention: You may lose data on the drive(s) or result in an unbootable system if configured improperly. Note: MicroSD cards automatically mount without any manual intervention required on Bazzite. Important: Do not use the NTFS, exFAT, or FAT32 filesystems for game library storage. Follow this guide at your own discretion and ...
Im not sure but some of it sounds familiar like opening kde to mess with partitions.
If it did have that done previously will i need to redo the whole thing and reinstall bazzite, redo the partitions, the windows thing and all?
Still there?
had to restart the pc
Oh okay
anyways if you used it to automount your drive it might be why you have issues atm. but it is not the usual error you get from that, this is from dracut which means something is seriously wrong and i am not sure how to even repair it, i would say get a live usb and get what you need off the drive and reinstall.
So try to redo the whole thing. Got it. Alright thanks for your help š
youre welcome, im sorry it is not an ideal answer š
Your fine. Ill probably be posting alot more questions. After. Im a total noob with software side of things. So if something is not completely going the same as a tutorial video im watching ill probably have to ask for help. Thats what happened the first time anyway
might be worth looking at the documentation too
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You mean from the tutorial i followed for this dual boot process?
in general
Im not sure what id need to look at
if you are following a video, its a good idea to have the documentation open too for the same thing
the documentation is updated 100% faster than a video that may or may not be updated
bazzite moves very fast
Oooooohhhh okay got you.
also its worth checking documentation first too if you have questions on how to do something
like forcing gamemode to a specific monitor when docked and such
one question we get asked a lot and its part of the gamemode overview documentation
I didn't know that was a thing frankly. I thought bazzite booting up into steam os essentially was the game mode lol
that is the gamemode
but sometimes people have multiple monitors and gamemode selects their vertical monitor as the monitor to use š¤£
Oh okay. Not i lol
I have one 55 inch tv usually lol
yeah some of us have a dock shared with a laptop or we use our handheld to work on and have multiple screens
or we have a HTPC with 1 big monitor and 1 secondary smaller monitor
would like to have gamemode appear on the big one
or we get that effect š
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