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ive tried looking around online and the closest thing i can find is that i need to flash the latest image onto a usb, can anyone verify that this is correct? i dont want to lose my personal files
ubuntu cant find boot media - i restarted my ubuntu laptop for a firefox update and now it cant find boot media
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it isnt a partition its a different device, i have windows ona desktop and ubuntu on a laptop, i cant do that from bios on the laptop either, all of the other options have disapeared and now i only have the prompt to select boot media
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ok if im just going to have to bite the bullet and wipe my personal files i will do that
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seems like your bootloader crashed, or ubuntu fucked itself up. if you can save your files heccing do it with a recovery tool otherwise just make a fresh install.
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do you have any reccommended recovery tools
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theres avira rescue system.iso but i dont know if thats publically available.
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according to their website linux systems can be searched and sanitized but not repaire, im going to try it
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if nothing else i could potentially get my files recovered and then fresh install over the fucked ubuntu
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in my 60 seconds google research i found 2 websites, not sure if they might be helpful.
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Should be able to just use a live image to reinstall GRUB (or whatever bootloader they use these days).
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It has probably confuse your boot media with your boot fetish media.
Time to reinstall, a linux users favourite activity it seems to me.
Time to reinstall, a linux users favourite activity it seems to me.
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Boot into a live enviroment and back up your /home directory to an external drive. Then reinstall Ubuntu and transfer your /home contents over to the new install.
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This is why you keep your important files on a backup external SSD (with redundancies preferably). When my OS shits the bed, the only downtime I have is reinstalling the faggot, everything else is ready to go at a moments notice from backups.
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Cool kid option is have /home/ on a separate drive. You can break your distro, hop distros, do hoodrat shit, and a few minutes on setting up your partitions on install (don't format the disk with /home/) and reinstalling whatever apps you use that aren't in the default install and you are back up like it never even happened. Bonus easy to keeping a backup of whatever /etc/.conf shit you modified in your seperate /home/. I have a bash script that adds all my rando repos, installs everything I use, and copies my confs back to /etc/. Doing that its maybe 15 minutes after absolutely hosing my system to back up to good as new.
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