After a hard reset, Bazzite only boots into UEFI
This is the 3rd time I'm having this problem and couldn't find a solution. As a quick background I'm using Bazzite on my HTPC setup (R5 3600X + Radeon 5700XT), which boots directly to Game mode. But sometimes (like tonight) following a full system upgrade Game Mode suffers some kind of a failure and freezes or stuck in "Shutting down steam" (tonight's was a decky failure) , which requires me to do a hard reset. Following the reset, Bazzite simply doesn't boot and loops into UEFI. I can see 2 entries starts with "Fedora" in the boot menu (not GRUB, but the boot menu you access with F10) but none of them works. Is there any way for me to recover from this failure, w/o doing a full reinstall over and over again?
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You don't have to re-install.
Booted today, there was a steam update and decky broke. You should be able to press CTRL+ALT+F2 to get into the terminal, log in as usually (you won't get any feedback when you type in your password). Then run
ujust setup-decky this will reinstall decky, press CTRL+ALT+F1 and it should switch back to the steam TTY session and relaunch steam in a few seconds. If that doesn't work try reboot.My problem is not exactly the same, it's not a black screen issue where I can simply change tty and run some commands. It's more like the boot partition is getting corrupted and I can't even init the boot.
So you not even getting to a blank screen. Note that after an update the shutdown can take between 30 seconds and 5 minutes to shutdown because it's completing the new image installation. It's very strange that both boot options don't work though if you do a hard reset though.
The two entries in the boot menu that you are seeing might be your previous install
If you restart a few times does it ever get into grub? If it does try and select the second boot option
I tried rebooting several times, it stays the same.
None of the options work, and simply loops back to the same menu. Enter Setup goes into UEFI
if you have bootable bazzite usb device I guess you could boot on it and try fixing your grub/UEFI partition
If it's a desktop have you tried unplugging it from power for a couple of minutes? Also might be worth doing a health test on your ssd drive
Maybe I'm dumb but I really couldn't find a doc online to follow about how to do that. I tried a generic approach to do chroot and all but failed. This being a read only system I guess complicates things a bit.
One of the first things I tried, to let the capacitors discharge and reboot. But unfortunately no luck.
You probably going to have to re-install again. Maybe boot a live usb and see if you can backup anything important first
It's ok, I can reinstall no worries. It's just that this will be the 4th time I reinstall this and just getting tiresome.
That's very odd that you've had to re-install so much though. I might be lucky but my install has worked for over a year with weekly updates. It might be worth double checking the health of the nvme or ssd drive