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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ohh, gotcha. You’re welcome!!