Right now I’m stuck in a boot issue on Elementary OS and I have no access to any installation medium :(

  • Prison Mike
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    3 months ago

    I’m kind of wishing I understood UEFI better, but I mainly run Linux on arm64 devices. Are you sure that’s the BIOS/UEFI? To me it seems strange that it would be smart enough to know about the different OSes but I’m probably wrong. 😞 It looks like a customized GRUB to me.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      3 months ago

      Yeah it’s some kind of Lenovo thing. Went to a repair shop they changed the HDD because the old one was apparently dead and installed Windows because they don’t have anything else. I haven’t even used Windows ever.

      • Prison Mike
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        13 months ago

        Does Windows boot? I know it’s not ideal but since you’re unable to boot into a Linux ISO you could consider running the filesystems checks from Windows. I’ve never done something like that but I know tools like Paragon exist. I’m not sure if WSL would be capable of checking them, but that could be another option (I haven’t used Windows in years).

        • @[email protected]OP
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          23 months ago

          Thanks for all the help, really appreciate it. Took it to a repair shop and they replaced the HDD, old one was broken, and installed Windows on it.