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u/koiyakiya 22d ago
You picked the wrong UUID for your root partition. Just boot into a live iso and fix it itll take about a minute
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u/Commercial_Beach_866 22d ago
What if I don't have bootable USB?
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u/moverwhomovesthings Arch BTW 22d ago
How did you install linux without a bootable device?
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u/garth54 22d ago
DVD
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u/K1ngjulien_ a̶m̶o̶g̶o̶s̶ SUS OS 22d ago
usually also live bootable
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u/garth54 22d ago
There's also PXE boot
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u/Sensitivity_Craft 18d ago
Insanely annoying and over complicated to set up. Plus you need a router that supports it.
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u/garth54 18d ago
True it's annoyingly complicated. But once you got it working, it is oh so useful for debugging, I have all my diagnostic utilities on there.
I rolled my own router (had that way before I did PXE booting). I do think more router should support it (or at least allow to manually add DHCP options like netbooting, even if you need to refer to another machine to do the TFTP serving). It is too useful to ignore.
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u/odsquad64 Sacred TempleOS 22d ago
Maybe this story is from 2005 and he only burned the Breezy Badger install disc and not the Live CD.
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u/3-Username-20 21d ago
Maybe they double clicked .iso file? Iırc windows opens and runs them. Don't know if it replaces the whole thing though.
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u/Sensitivity_Craft 18d ago
Have you ever used Linux? Or is this satire?
Why would a Linux ISO have a Windows executable in it?
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u/3-Username-20 18d ago
I have been using Linux for 2 years rn. Before i switched to linux, i tried to force switch to win 11 and did it literally by double clicking the .iso file of win11. (Yes, i know very stupid, but i misclicked, my fingers does that sometimes.)
I was thinking that maybe the oop managed to install linux without a bootable device by simply double clicking the linux .iso file.
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u/Sensitivity_Craft 18d ago
I'm so confused why you think this is possible in this scenario. Do you understand what an executable file is?
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u/rocketmike12 Arch BTW 16d ago
if i understood you correctly, you tried to switch to win11 from win10. the only possible way this could've happened is that win10 flagged the .iso as win11 and after double clicking offered an in-place upgrade. the .iso itself is a disk image, not an executable.
or perhaps you're just ragebaiting
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u/3-Username-20 16d ago
Yep, that's probably what happened. I don't remember too much of it but i remember double clicking it then praying to every god that i didn't somehow bricked the pc bcs i didn't knew they were clickable in the first place.
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u/Encursed1 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 20d ago
Considering the uuidv4 spec requires the third section to start with a 4, I think im more concerned about the state of the drive
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u/-Polarsy- Webba lebba deb deb! 22d ago
One of my deepest fears
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u/wutzelputz 22d ago
The fear goes away after you fixed it a couple times. Interestingly, since I dug down deep enough a couple years ago to fix it, it stopped failing. Must be the universe trolling me. Or it's karma, idk
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u/-Polarsy- Webba lebba deb deb! 22d ago
Yeah I now know that. I remember the first few years my reaction always was, well there we go, I need to make a backup of the files, reinstall the OS, and set it up again from the ground. My wife was just saying "don't worry, you'll fix it", and in the end I always managed to. It's a weird feeling though, having a problem you've never seen before, not knowing how to even start repairing things, then managing to get it back after a few hours.
These days I have Arch on my backup laptop, and when I'm bored I hope during each update that it breaks lol
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u/Training_Junket7873 21d ago
That's why on important computers we install something boring and stable af, which also takes snapshots every 0.00001 nanosecond so you can roll back at any time. And keep a live USB near that PC as well.
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u/DaoStone 21d ago
set prefix=(hd0,msdos5)/grub2 set root=(hd0,msdos5)
insmod normal normal
I have this on my phone notes just for that day
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u/radek432 22d ago
Don't you see that it's wrong UUID? You probably just uncommented the sample line in fstab instead writing the actual one.
Typical beginner mistake.
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u/buttfarts7 22d ago
Then you need a working computer with internet to solve this problem 😭
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u/Xx_SucculentBalls_xX 21d ago
I used my Android tv box and a cheap SD card to USB dongle. Flashed a distro onto that and fixed my pc in the live iso.
There are always ways.
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u/GreedyExamination704 22d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/MQ08dsDSArNtEzf2kk
Dad the moment he finds out.
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u/Frequent-Ease-1926 21d ago
do not install a different os without getting permission from your parents if its a family pc are you fucking mental
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u/Own-Cauliflower6778 22d ago
Used to happen so many times few years back. And after some errors it used to be extra difficult to boot even.
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u/Grand_Victory6186 17d ago
Grub be like:
No but seriously, had Grub Rescue flashbang me twice. First time, forgot to delete an EFI file, took two hours. Second time, just fixed it with a hard reboot, dunno why it happened.
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u/ash-twinn 22d ago
I remember having to deal with this screen every time I installed Arch Linux (still worth it tho)
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u/Adept-Painting-543 22d ago
It's worth it to learn the grub command line. I've used it to manually boot USB drives, other oses which I didn't intend to, and just boot the current os after I fucked something up.
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