Damus
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I was doing a remote system software upgrade and the machine became unresponsive. Now it boots directly into the BIOS.

Years ago, I'd have a sinking feeling of disaster. Now, I'm merely exhaustingly annoyed that I have to spend a good chunk of tomorrow with a rescue USB figuring out what fucked the UEFI Configuration, and unfucking it. With any luck it'll only blow a couple of my Sunday hours.
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Less than an hour. It boiled down to booting from an Arch live USB stick, then: ``` $ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt $ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/efi $ sudo arch-chroot /mnt $ pacman -Syu $ dracut -f $ exit $ sudo shutdown -r now ``` Most of the time was figuring out which boot loader generator...